AO3's 2-4 week downtime sparks speculation: rewriting everything with AI?
jd_pressman · x · 2026-10-30
AO3's announced 2-4 week downtime is raising eyebrows. Commenters note its infrastructure was already a mess—a Rails monolith that once stayed down for days—but nobody can figure out what warrants such a long outage. jdpressman speculates: maybe they're rewriting the whole thing with AI but can't tell users because they'd revolt.
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