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July 11, 2023 - 23:50 UTC

Woooo! Way to go AO3 volunteers!

very grateful to the ao3 volunteers and staff who do so much work to maintain an online space where people can post and archive their creative fiction work without fear. i have absolutely no interest in partaking in the discourse icebergs i've seen floating by my dashboard, and i'm certain that the involved volunteers don't, either. now is a good time to appreciate the people who care so much about the site and care about keeping our creative work safe. they are presumably under a lot of stress right now and are doing the best they can. be patient and if you Must message them via social media, please be encouraging rather than demanding/irate/upset/hand-wringing/etc. the volunteers do tend to be pretty good about keeping people updated during outages and this sucks way more for them than for anyone who's just trying to read/upload fic rn, so. Be So Fucking Nice To Them . Please . For The Love Of God

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I declare, 11th of July, from now on: AO3 LIBERATION DAY

Every year on the 11th of July we celebrate the LIBERATION of AO3 by showing our love to the volunteers and admins who have worked so hard te keep this site running for all this time