Not going to link an article since the party behind the DDoS attack may not be who they say they are (meaning their motivations are essentially unknown) but I figured it might still be worth posting a discussion thread, if only to see what people are going to be doing while AO3 is down.
I guess I’m going to have to actually do some writing. Haha.
The timing on this is funny though because I had just put a new chapter out on Sunday, which was my first time updating my long fic in close to eight months so there were probably a couple of readers who got the notification, thought “oh, I’ll check that out later” then didn’t get the chance to.
I’m a little worried about the articles that are suggesting it may be weeks before AO3 is back up though.
I don’t know how hard it is to get the servers back up (or if the attack is still going on) but I’ll probably make a donation once they do have it up just for all their hard work.
I also said to myself this is a sign to stop procrastinating and actually work on writing. Yet here I am, not doing that. More interested in who decided a fanfic site was worth a DDoS attack, besides the obvious just for fun.
Lol. I feel like there’s some kind of meme in there where the AO3 author’s are all the little crabs being like “it’s a sign!” then instead of writing they all just I’m procrastinate in creative new ways.
But although I’m also curious about the motive behind the attack, I’m hesitant to believe it was whatever group is claiming credit for it right now because apparently that hate group asked for a ransom of some kind (which yeah, would be a stupid thing to ask for from AO3. Like, surely no one thinks the fanfiction archive with no ads is loaded with cash).
It’s a little conspiracy-esque but I feel like it could have something to do with the overall internet unrest? Realistically it’s probably just a mistake or something though. Lol.
Oops, ironically, I was reading on my kindle. So I didn’t even notice it was down. I guess this counts as procrastination still? 😆