People Are Creating ‘Survival Guides’ to Cope With the ‘AO3 Apocalypse’
📍 Where it landed
The fan fiction website AO3 experienced an outage due to a security incident, with reports indicating it could be down for up to four weeks. In response, users created "survival guides" to cope with the disruption, which was referred to as the "AO3 Apocalypse". The site remained down as of the last coverage.
Epilogue added 4d ago, after coverage quieted.
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What drove coverage for People Are Creating ‘Survival Guides’ to Cope With the ‘AO3 Apocalypse’?
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People Are Creating ‘Survival Guides’ to Cope With the ‘AO3 Apocalypse’ WIRED · 6d ago broke it first
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