Fanfiction outages and problems
In the past 24 hours, 20 user reports came in for Fanfiction. Counting only the 15-minute windows with a spike big enough to count as an outage, that comes to 100.00% uptime for the day.
The busiest 15-minute window had 3 reports, about 23 hours ago. That stays below our outage threshold, so it doesn't count as downtime.
Fanfiction in October 2026
- Problem reports in October (since 27 October)
- 21
Monthly report for October 2026
What people said was wrong in recent problem reports for Fanfiction, as a share of those reports:
- 50% App
- 50% Login
Where Fanfiction problem reports come from
Recent reports came from 14 areas. The most came from around New York City, NY, College Station, TX and Boston, MA. Share of recent reports by area, named after its biggest town:
- 14% New York City, NY
- 9% College Station, TX
- 9% Boston, MA
- 5% Allentown, PA
- 5% Philadelphia, PA
- 5% South Bend, IN
From 22 recent problem reports. Big cities always send the most, so reports from many places point to a widespread problem, and one area far ahead of the rest can mean a regional one. Town names: GeoNames.
Fanfiction problem spikes, last 30 days
Since 27 October, Fanfiction had no outage spikes or periods of elevated reports.
A spike is a sharp rise in problem reports from users, kept exactly as this page showed it at the time. This history starts on 27 October 2026. Monthly reports for all services
How to fix Fanfiction not working
Fanfiction is up on our end, so if it won't work for you, the problem is most likely on your side. Work through these in order:
Your browser tries to reach fanfiction.net over your own connection, right now. Nothing is sent to us or stored.
Reload and restart
Reload the page (Ctrl+F5, or Cmd+Shift+R on a Mac), or fully close the app and open it again.
Try another connection
Switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data. If it works on one and not the other, the problem is your network, not Fanfiction.
Update the app
Install the latest version from the App Store or Google Play. Old versions can stop connecting after a server-side change.
While Fanfiction is down: what to use instead
- Archive of Our Own Use it when you need tagged search and downloads for offline reading.
- Wattpad It suits quick reading on a phone and chapter comments while the service is unavailable.
- Royal Road Try it for long serial fiction with chapter lists and update follows.
- Saved copies Open stories you already downloaded so a loading failure does not stop your reading.
Fanfiction IP address, servers and network
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Put the Fanfiction status badge on your site
Paste one of these into a web page, a blog post or a README. The badge shows the same status as this page, based on user problem reports. Browsers can keep a copy for up to 4 hours. It links back here.
<a href="https://isitdownrightnow.app/services/fanfiction/"><img src="https://isitdownrightnow.app/badge/fanfiction.svg" alt="Fanfiction status" height="20"></a>[](https://isitdownrightnow.app/services/fanfiction/)The badge is a plain image: no scripts, no cookies. People who see it on your page load it from our server.
How we track Fanfiction
The status on this page comes from user-submitted problem reports for Fanfiction, counted in 15-minute windows over the last 24 hours. Each window is compared with the normal level for Fanfiction, so a few complaints on a quiet day don't trigger anything, but a sudden jump well above normal does.
When reports climb well above normal, the status here changes to partial outage or major outage and the chart moves with it. Fanfiction doesn't publish a public status page that we know of, so user reports are often the quickest sign that something is wrong on their side.