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.
Oops, ironically, I was reading on my kindle. So I didn’t even notice it was down. I guess this counts as procrastination still? 😆
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.