Archive of our own
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Archive of our own (AO3) is an open source and volunteer-led fanfiction website. Community members have discussed backfeeding their comments. See AO3 on Wikipedia.
Features
- tags
- content warnings
- Fanfictions, kudos (likes) and comments in many languages
- Many fandoms
- RSS feeds for each tag and fandom
Resources & Guides
- Experimental AO3/Astro loader (see Astro)
- AO3.js
- AO3-style.css
- Fixing Work Imports from Other OTW-based Archives by
Brennan Brown
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Sara Jakša
Sara Jakša posts the copies of the stories posted there on her website. The process is currently manual and will probably stay manual. They keep the list of comments they made locally to be used for different scripts (like to generate user CSS).
Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Brainstorming
Backfeed
Backfeed of comments was discussed at the 2023-07-01 Galactic Bonus Homebrew Website Club. The discussion started with how this could be implemented in the WordPress or Bridgy, with most of the discussion being about backfeeding.
The problem with backfeeding for AO3 is, that AO3 does not provide a list of all the comments or kudos (equvalent of likes) that a person had posted, though they provide a list of all the bookmarks a person had made. What they do provide is the history of every story every visited and sending the copies of the comments to the email - assuming the user did not turn this off. To get all the user comments, they suggest to use the add-on, which checks all the works in the history and put next to it an indication if the story had a comment or a kudo from the user.
They do not provide an API, but they give all the permission to scrape them for needs like this.
There is a third-party Node.js library that provides an API for AO3 (and other sites that use the same codebase) called AO3.js, which can be used for scraping.
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Outages
- 2026-03-22 Postmortem of March 2026 AO3 Downtime
- 2023-07-11 "AO3 IS BACK" was trending on Twitter
See Also
Whenever there are fears about censorship on other sites, AO3 sees an increase in the waitlist for our automatic invitation queue. Regardless of their reasons for joining, we welcome any new user to our site who agrees to abide by our Terms of Service. We will not vet new users for "legitimacy", because AO3 is for everyone.