History Trivia / ArchiveOfOurOwn

** In March 2023, Roskomnadzor had requested the site to delete 16 fics, containing "child pornography". The site was subsequently blocked in Russia on 14 April 2023, after failing to comply with the request. A Ukrainian [=Twitter=] user claimed responsibility for the report in a deleted tweet.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Since the website allows users to delete their works at will, this trope happens a ''lot''. Fortunately, users are also allowed to download fics, so an already-downloaded fic won't be lost forever.

** The site used to allow users to put as many tags as they wanted on their fics. After August 2021, however, it implemented a maximum limit of 75 tags that can be put on a fic after the infamous ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'' fic ''Sexy Times with Wangxian'', which had so many tags attached to it (over ''4400'' at its peak) that it actually started causing technical problems for mobile users and those with weaker [=PCs=].
** The site usually allows people without accounts to leave comments as "guest" users. In April of 2024, this feature was temporarily disabled after bots started leaving hundreds of comments claiming works were generated by AI, followed by abusive spam and porn gifs. Guest comments were enabled again after 3 days, but the site now requires users prove they're not a bot before commenting, and has guest comments disabled on works by default.

** The site used to allow users to put as many tags as they wanted on their fics. After August 2021, however, it implemented a maximum limit of 75 tags that can be put on a fic after the infamous ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'' fic ''Sexy Times with Wangxian'', which had so many tags attached to it (over ''4400'' at its peak) that it actually started causing technical problems for mobile users and those with weaker PCs.

* WhyTheFandomCantHaveNiceThings: The site used to allow users to put as many tags as they wanted on their fics. After August 2021, however, it implemented a maximum limit of 75 tags that can be put on a fic after the infamous ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'' fic ''Sexy Times with Wangxian'' literally caused technical difficulties by having ''over 4000 tags'' attached to it.

** As of 2023, the site is also banned in Russia.

* 8 as of 2023 the site is also banned in Russia.

* BannedInChina: A literal example in that, on February 29, 2020, Archive of Our Own was banned in China with no announcement whatsoever. While Chinese users initially thought it was a problem with the site, the archive staff said the matter had been investigated and the problem was not on their end. It was revealed it was banned over explicit gay portrayals of mainland Chinese actor Xiao Zhan from ''Series/TheUntamed'', causing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott_against_Xiao_Zhan_Incident quite a backlash in China]]. Ironic, as ''The Untamed'' is adapted from ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi''... which is a ''BoysLove web novel''. It's also suspected to be for the very unsurprising reason of how Archive of Our Own hosts very explicit work, considering how China censors work like that heavily. The [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/22478632/chapters/53712151 offending work]] has, as of 2022, the #5 most hits of any RealPersonFic on the site.

* WhyTheFandomCantHaveNiceThings: The site used to allow users to put as much tags as they wanted on their fics. After August 2021, however, it implemented a maximum limit of 75 tags that can be put on a fic after the infamous ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'' fic ''Sexy Times with Wangxian'' literally caused technical difficulties by having ''over 4000 tags'' attached to it.

* BannedInChina: A literal example in that, on February 29, 2020, Archive of Our Own was banned in China with no announcement whatsoever. While Chinese users initially thought it was a problem with the site, the archive staff said the matter had been investigated and the problem was not on their end. While there are no official reasons as to why this happened, [[https://www.vox.com/2020/3/1/21159275/china-ao3-archive-of-our-own-banned-censorship it's rumored]] that this was due to complaints by the fans of one of the actors in the ''Series/TheUntamed'' over the portrayals of his character in the fandom's queer content. If the rumors are true, then this would be incredibly ironic, as ''The Untamed'' is adapted from ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi''... which is a ''BoysLove web novel''. It's also suspected to be for the very unsurprising reason of how Archive of Our Own hosts very explicit work, considering how China censors work like that heavily.

* WhyTheFandomCantHaveNiceThings: The site implemented a maximum limit of 75 tags that can be put on a fic after the infamous ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'' fic ''Sexy Times with Wangxian'' literally caused technical difficulties by having attached to it ''over 4000 tags''.

* BannedInChina: A literal example in that, on February 29, 2020, Archive of Our Own was banned in China with no announcement whatsoever. While Chinese users initially thought it was a problem with the site, the archive staff said the matter had been investigated and the problem was not on their end. While there are no official reasons as to why this happened, [[https://www.vox.com/2020/3/1/21159275/china-ao3-archive-of-our-own-banned-censorship it's rumored]] that this was due to complaints by the fans of one of the actors in the ''Series/TheUntamed'' over the portrayals of his character in the fandom's queer content. If the rumors are true, then this would be incredibly ironic, as ''The Untamed'' is adapted from ''Literature/MoDaoZuShi''... which is a ''BoysLove web novel''. It's also suspected to be for the very unsurprising reason of how Archive of Our Own hosts very explicit work, considering how China censors work like that heavily.

* BannedInChina: A literal example in that, on February 29, 2020, Archive of Our Own was banned in China with no announcement whatsoever. While Chinese users initially thought it was a problem with the site, the archive staff said the matter had been investigated and the problem was not on their end. While there are no official reasons as to why this happened, [[https://www.vox.com/2020/3/1/21159275/china-ao3-archive-of-our-own-banned-censorship it's rumored]] that this was due to complaints by one of the actors in the ''Series/TheUntamed'' over the portrayals of his character in the fandom's queer content. If the rumors are true, then this would be incredibly ironic, as ''The Untamed'' is adapted from ''Literature/MoDaoZuShi''... which is a ''BoysLove web novel''. It's also suspected to be for the very unsurprising reason of how Archive of Our Own hosts very explicit work, considering how China censors work like that heavily.

* BannedInChina: A literal example in that, on February 29 of 2020, Archive of Our Own was banned in China with no announcement whatsoever. While Chinese users initially thought it was a problem with the site, the archive staff said the matter had been investigated and the problem was not on their end. While there are no official reasons as to why this happened, [[https://www.vox.com/2020/3/1/21159275/china-ao3-archive-of-our-own-banned-censorship it's rumored]] that this was due to complaints by one of the actors in the ''Series/TheUntamed'' over the portrayals of his character in the fandom's queer content. If the rumors are true, then this would be incredibly ironic, as ''The Untamed'' is adapted from ''Literature/MoDaoZuShi''... which is a ''BoysLove web novel''. It's also suspected to be for the very unsurprising reason of how Archive of Our Own hosts very explicit work, considering how China censors work like that heavily.

* BannedInChina: A literal example in that, on February 29 of 2020, Archive of Our Own was banned in China with no announcement whatsoever. While Chinese users initially thought it was a problem with the site, the archive staff said the matter had been investigated and the problem was not on their end. While there are no official reasons as to why this happened, [[https://www.vox.com/2020/3/1/21159275/china-ao3-archive-of-our-own-banned-censorship it's rumored]] that this was due to complaints by one of the actors in the ''Series/TheUntamed'' over the portrayals of his character in the fandom's queer content. If the rumors are true, then this would be incredibly ironic, as ''The Untamed'' is adapted from ''Literature/MoDaoZuShi''... which is a ''BoysLove web novel''. It's also suspected to be for the very unsurprisingly reason of how Archive of Our Own hosts very explicit work, considering how China censors work like that heavily.

* BannedInChina: A literal example in that, on February 29 of 2020, Archive of Our Own was banned in China with no announcement whatsoever. While Chinese users initially thought it was a problem with the site, the archive staff said the matter had been investigated and the problem was not on their end. While there are no official reasons as to why this happened, [[https://www.vox.com/2020/3/1/21159275/china-ao3-archive-of-our-own-banned-censorship it's rumored]] that this was due to complaints by one of the actors in the ''Series/TheUntamed'' over the portrayals of his character in the fandom's queer content. If the rumors are true, then this would be incredibly ironic, as ''The Untamed'' is adapted from ''Literature/MoDaoZuShi''... which is a ''BoysLove web novel''.

* BannedInChina: A literal example. As of February 2020, Archive of Our Own has apparently been banned in China. On 29 Feb, Archive staff responded to reports from Chinese users that the site was inaccessible. They said the matter had been investigated and the problem was not on their end.[[https://www.vox.com/2020/3/1/21159275/china-ao3-archive-of-our-own-banned-censorship There have been some rumors]] that this was due to complaints by one of the actors in the Chinese drama, ''Series/TheUntamed'', over the portrayals of his character in fandom, especially ones involving queer content. This makes the situation quite ironic if the rumors are true, as ''The Untamed'' is adapted from a popular Boys Love web novel, ''Literature/MoDaoZuShi''.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The website allows users to delete their works at will, resulting in this trope. Users are also allowed to download fics, so an already-downloaded fic won't be lost forever.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Naturally, considering that it allows users to delete their works at will. Interestingly, it also allows users to download fics, so an already-downloaded fic won't be lost forever.

* BannedInChina: Literally. It wasn't always banned in China but, because, supposedly, of some reports by fans of Xiao Zhan (star of the Chinese webseries ''The Untamed''), accusing the site of "pornography and prostitution", the government cracked down and [[http://nazr.in/1eDy blocked the site]].

* BannedInChina: Literally.It wasn't always banned in China but, because, supposedly, of some reports by fans of Xiao Zhan (star of the Chinese webseries ''The Untamed''), accusing the site of "pornography and prostitution", the government cracked down and [[http://nazr.in/1eDy blocked the site]].

* BannedInChina: Literally.It wasn't always banned in China but, because, supposedly, of some reports by fans of Xiao Zhan (star of the Chinese webseries ''TheUntamed''), accusing the site of "pornography and prostitution", the government cracked down and [[http://nazr.in/1eDy blocked the site]].

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Actually, [=AO3=] plays with this, as it allows users to download as fics that they like, so a fic being downloaded won't be lost forever.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Actually, [=AO3=] plays with this, as it allows users to download as fics that they like, so a fic being downloaded won't be lost forever.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Actually, [=AO3=] plays with this, as it allows users to download as fics that they like, so a fic being downloaded won't be lost forever.