Archive of Our Own

Archive Of Our Own (AO3)
URL	https://archiveofourown.org/
Status	Endangered
Archiving status	Not saved yet
Archiving type	Unknown
IRC channel	#archiveteam-bs (on hackint)
Language(s)	English Multilingual

"Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a nonprofit open source repository for fanfiction and other fanworks contributed by users." (Wikipedia article)

Although the website is run by reliable people of open-source mindsetthe text authors themselves cannot be trusted with long-term availability of their works. These authors are no strangers to deleting their work online weeks/months/years down the line. Therefore a reliable up-to-date archival project is always necessary. Thus the project should be marked endangeredalthough the website itself is not.

Archival

Just like other websites with user-generated contentthis would be a continuous project to keep up-to-date.

Two years ago I volunteered to help find a deleted fan-fiction piece. It seemedthere are no archives or mirrors at the time. Any available archive.org fan-fiction dumps hadn't captured the work in question - VADemon2025

Oftentimes works contain 18+ story lines and the likes ("Sexual content" is a top tag)so the website hides them behind cookie banners. Archive.org's WBM crawler cannot archive those due to consent cookies missing. But there's a trickif you add ?view_adult=true to the end of URLsthe bot should receive the cookie back.

Work ids are sequential.