I Am Relentless and Undaunted

The past few days, I have been a little busy. Two days ago, Archive of Our Own, the largest fanfiction website on the net, announced unexpected maintenance, which then turned out to be a security breach resulting in the site being down for the next two to four weeks. As some of you may be aware, I run my own transformative works archive, fanfiction.lol, using the open-source OTWArchive codebase. I've written about this before on my blog. By chance, I audited and upgraded the software on the server a day before AO3's outage, and was prepared for the influx of new users. We doubled in size and went from around 300 users to over 600 as of writing, and are currently the only AO3-fork with open registration. Fandom and fanfiction may seem like a small thing to some, but this unplanned, prolonged outage made the New York Times. It is no small thing. Fanfiction.lol is a small thing, though. And I'm glad I can provide a handful of AO3 users a place to write and read works until the site is…