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Type of site | Fanfiction |
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| Founded | October 2008 |
| Owner | Organization for Transformative Works |
| URL | archiveofourown |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | 7,669,000[1] |
| Launched | 14 November 2009 (Open beta) |
| Written in | Ruby |
Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a nonprofit open source repository for fanfiction and other fanworks contributed by users. The site was created in 2008 by the Organization for Transformative Works and went into open beta in 2009 and continues to be in beta.[2] As of 4 November 2024[update], Archive of Our Own hosts 13,910,000 works in over 68,230 fandoms, including those related to real people.[1] The site has received generally positive reception for its curation, organization, and design, mostly done by readers and writers of fanfiction.[3][4]
- ^ a b "AO3 Home Page (via Wayback Machine)". Archive of Our Own. 1 September 2024. Archived from the original on 1 September 2024.
- ^ "Announcing Open Beta!". Organization for Transformative Works. 13 November 2009. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ^ Fiesler, Casey; Morrison, Shannon; Bruckman, Amy S. (2016). An Archive of Their Own: A Case Study of Feminist HCI and Values in Design. CHI 2016. San Jose, CA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 2574–2585. doi:10.1145/2858036.2858409. ISBN 978-1-4503-3362-7.
- ^ Grossman, Lev (1 May 2013). "50 Best Websites 2013: Archive of Our Own". Time. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.