Posts by OTW Communications
Fandom Friendships: A Zine
Fandom Friendships: A Zine explores and honors friendships made and sustained through fandom. The zine was open to contributions from anyone and solicited contributions last year. Contributors were asked questions like: Who are the friends you met through fandom, and how did you meet? What makes fandom friendship special? How has making friends through fandom changed over the years for you? What can we learn from fandom friendships? Just some of what this compilation includes tells the story of: friends showing up in a time of a parent’s death during the pandemic, the bonding capabilities of Superwholock and K-pop, what happens when you move in… Read more
Intermittent site slowness and errors
Since the end of December 2024, AO3 has had numerous periods of slowness, downtime, and related issues such as missing kudos emails and delayed invitations. We’ve been taking some steps to improve the situation, but we are also working on some highly time-sensitive updates to our infrastructure, so we can’t spend as much time as we’d like on performance improvements. We expect some slowness and downtime to continue until our new servers are delivered and installed in a few months. We first noticed some strain on the servers we use for Elasticsearch (which powers searching and filtering) in the middle of last year. The new… Read more