AO3 was offline a week ago, but there’s still a fandom brewing in the Downdetector comments

It was an internet nerd’s worst nightmare. On July 10, Archive of Our Own (AO3), a beloved, non-profit fan fiction platform, was plagued by DDoS attacks, rendering it inaccessible for over a day. It makes sense that this community would turn to Downdetector, a website where users crowdsource reports of web outages and can communicate information about outages to one another. What doesn’t make sense is that AO3 has been back online for a week, yet some people are still using the Downdetector comments like a massive group chat. They’ve even started calling themselves “the Downdetector fandom.”

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