Engadget: Fan fiction website AO3 is finally coming out of beta. “The famous fan fiction website Archive of Our Own or AO3 has finally exited open beta, 17 years after it launched way back in 2009. … Upon launching the website on open beta, it only had 347 accounts and hosted 6,598 works. Now, it has 10 million registered users and is hosting 17 million fan-created works.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/07/engadget-fan-fiction-website-ao3-is-finally-coming-out-of-beta/