Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a non-profit, fan-created, fan-run, open-source project for transformative fanworks. It is a safe, welcoming, and inclusive space for anyone to read, write, create, and share transformative works. AO3 allows users to create and post fanworks such as fanfiction, fanart, and fanvids, in a wide variety of genres and fandoms. AO3 also offers a variety of features that cater to the needs of all its users, including tagging, sorting, and search functions. It also provides a platform for users to engage with one another, and create a supportive and empowering online community.

Compare it to ... Archiveofourown.org has 2.49% of its total traffic coming from social networks (in last 3 months) and the most active engagement is detected in Twitter (6.14K twitts)office.rescrf.comArchiveofourown.org domain is owned by GDPR Redacted Organization for Transformative Works and its registration expires in 3 years.

It is hosted on servers owned by the Organization for Transformative Works and therefore not vulnerable to a commercial hosting company deciding they don't like the fanworks.southparkfanon.fandom.comThe Archive of Our Own aka AO3 is a multi-fandom archive built and run almost entirely by volunteers. It is currently designed to host text-based fanfiction.

This is done by the parser and sanitizer, which are programs built into the Archive to review code. The parser adds code where it's missing or attempts to clean up messy code.archiveofourown.orgYou can use HTML on Archive of Our Own ( AO3) to format your text in many places. There's some HTML that AO3 automatically applies to any content you're posting.