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very funny to wake up to a hacker news argument over the use of the word "they"

> Earlier today, we detected evidence of a security incident on AO3. We are still in the early stages of response to this security incident and determining its scope. AO3 will remain down while we continue investigating and addressing what has been found so far. However, we want to make some things clear:

First, no AO3 data has been deleted. All your works, bookmarks, kudos, etc., are safe.

Second, while we currently don't believe that the user database was stolen, we are also unable to rule it out. The AO3 database contains account information that may include your username, email address, IP address, and a hashed version of your password.

We use industry-standard techniques for storing passwords in a scrambled form that cannot easily be reversed. Even so, no hashing method can fully protect a weak or reused password from being cracked. As a precaution, we recommend that you change your passwords on any other sites where you use the same password as on AO3.

AO3 does not collect real names, so none could be exposed. Additionally, our donor information is held in an entirely separate system and is never linked to AO3, so that data has also not been exposed.

We will update everyone as our investigation continues; we may be unable to respond to individual inquiries from users. Please keep an eye on our official outlets for updates. Our next update will be posted when we have further information available.

Our current expectation is that AO3 will be down for a minimum of two weeks; however, it could take up to four weeks. During that time, we may be able to bring the site back up in a degraded state, meaning that not all features will be available and/or the site may be read-only. If we are able to do that, please be aware that we might have to bring the site back down unexpectedly as part of our recovery efforts. We will keep you in the loop for any developments. Oct 30, 2026 - 01:27 UTC

you know they jut bump this every year right

i think also better general support for multi screen setup

ayy thank you very much it is a labor of love

>As much as Josh is a tool

did you really have to include that? without substantiation this is just a mean offhand side swipe.

yes please ^ browser company engs!

... how did you know?

well technically they didn't LOSE data, in fact, now they have free global replicas of the data!

you beat pi-durable to it!

> depends how well they did the post-training, which I can't tell

this is their problem, not yours. at least disclose # of flops spent or amount of data used in an attempt to give us an idea of how nontrivial it was. cursor at least does this with their composer model