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teecupangel · 10 months

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What's your take on the ddos attack on AO3?

I think this post pretty much summarized what happened to AO3

Now, AO3 did say that the website is back up but there is a possibility of slowing down or an issue or two as they have yet to optimize their new CloudFlare so let’s all be patient and keep an ear out for any news from AO3 (I believe this is their official tumblr?)

As for my take itself, I agree that this is a group masquerading as another group and there is a possibility that this is actually fueled by greed as they have tried to ransom AO3 as well and the whole ‘reason’ they gave in their official statement is just smokescreen.

Honestly, that’s all I have since I was writing (or maybe I was at work? Not sure when AO3 went down) then asleep then worked while AO3 was down so I didn’t have time to panic or check for any wils conspiracy theory (if there are any? I don't think so.

I did feel that it’s kinda ironic that AO3 goes down a few hours after I updated The Shadow’s Endgame after that huge cliffhanger last week so for those who received a ‘oh hey, Shadow’s Endgame updated’ notif from AO3 and was met with AO3 being down… I feel the desire to say sorry to you guys.

Also, considering the personality I plan to write for the newly introduced character in Eagle of Alamut, he’s going to be sulking that his ‘debut’ has been postponed because of this.

Other than that, I did read that there was a possibility it would be down for weeks (which probably won’t happen this time around) and I was like “Noooo, my ‘carefully’ thought of chapter schedules!” and I was debating if I should just post new chapters here in Tumblr as well? We’ll see. If it appears that AO3 will be having technical difficulties until next Monday’s scheduled postings, I’ll post the next chapter of Eagle of Alamut here in Tumblr as well.

Funny thing is I was thinking if I should post the Tumblr fic ideas I have in this blog to AO3 as a way to:

Have an easier time actually finding them if I need them

Just to have a back up in case some fuckery happens

But I haven’t checked if fic ideas and headcanons/analysis don’t violate any of AO3’s rules and regulations. I’d probably have to look into that first but I’ve been so busy this past few weeks and will be busy until like second or third week of September.

And now I realized that we’ve slightly moved away from the actual ask and I guess this would be the most awkward time to end this answer.

Anyway, download emergency fanfics just in case, keep a look out for any announcements from AO3’s official accounts and do as they request, and, if you can, donate to AO3 whatever amount you can without it impacting your way of living and any plans you may have.

#also don’t forget to leave kudos on your emergency fics #once you’ve read them or after downloading them #your call #leaving comments always makes writers’ day brighter #but don’t be pressured to think that you do have to leave one #if you don’t want to #the best comments are those written because you want to write them #ask and answer

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