Summary
The popular repository of almost 19 million stories originally said it was going down for maintenance. Now it has disclosed a security incident. The w…
What this means for you
The article says the site, which holds almost 19 million stories, originally said it was going down for maintenance and has now disclosed a security incident, and it may not return anytime soon. For Chinese readers in the US who use the archive as a regular reading habit, the practical effect described here is simply that the site is dark with no confirmed return time. The disclosed security incident is the only safety-related detail in the article; it gives no information about what data, accounts or users were affected. The article describes no effects on visas, jobs, income and prices, education, or family life.
Source: Fast Company
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If your main source of fan fiction went dark for days, would you wait it out or switch to another archive — and do you keep your own copies of the works you love?
