Using these tools to access ao3 is at your own risk. If you come to the site after. We’re experiencing widespread 500 errors due to a hardware failure, but we are working on getting the archive back!
On mobile, sometimes trying data instead. So you have a couple of options. If you are not in a country that has ao3 blocked, make sure you are connected to internet.
User reports indicate no current problems at archive of our own. We expect the 500 errors to continue on and off for at least 5 hours, until about 01:00 utc (check what time that is for you). If you are using the site and suddenly get 502 error, click contact support. If it's 500 or 502 error, everyone is affected.
They can take minutes or hours to resolve, depending on the cause. 500 errors are server side. A 500 internal server error means that the website you were trying to connect to has experienced a problem and can't provide a more specific error code. That means “internal server error”.
1xx “hold up a sec” 2xx “here's what you want.” 3xx “i don't have what you want but i. (no data has been lost.) date: Error 500 is an internal server error, so there's not much you can do about it. Please be patient with the volunteers who are probably handling communications with the.
You cannot fix a 500. The otw will have to. However, you've tested and found that typing random letters works. Something is wrong with the website but unless you own that website there’s nothing you can do to fix it, other than report it to technical support.