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Archive of Our Own
Who runs Archive of Our Own, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest fanfiction archive alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- FanFiction.Net
Measured from Archive of Our Own’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Archive of Our Own01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Archive of Our Own
Archive of Our Own archiveofourown.org
Wikidata: nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What Archive of Our Own tracks
We couldn’t read archiveofourown.org’s homepage (HTTP 418), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Archive of Our Own
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Archive of Our Own, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read archiveofourown.org’s homepage (HTTP 418), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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US fanfiction website
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Russian language repository for fanfiction, based in Latvia
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Quotev
Read or write a story, book, quiz, survey, or poll. Follow others who share your interests
Very close - 04
Wattpad - Stories to obsess over
Wattpad connects a global community of millions of readers and writers through the power of story
Very close - 05
Home — Weasyl
online art gallery
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Explore - SoFurry
Discover artwork, stories, music, games and more from the furry community. Join SoFurry and share your creations.
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Index -- Fur Affinity [dot] net
Fur Affinity | For all things fluff, scaled, and feathered!
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Welcome | Inkbunny, the Furry Art Community
Inkbunny is a furry art community that helps you showcase your art, comics, stories, music and animations. Join For Free to start exploring, sharing, and selling!
Very close - 09 Royal Road royalroad.com
Online webfiction hosting platform
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Главная - прикольные картинки, мемы, комиксы, гифки на JoyReactor
Главная страница JoyReactor - это смешные картинки, арты, игровой юмор и гифки (с котами). Но стоит копнуть чуть глубже, и можно найти больше постов и разделов, интересных именно вам, и подписаться на них. Полезно каждый день поглядывать в разделы Тренды и Наши любимые теги на главной странице, можно повстречать много неожиданного и, как минимум, занятного.
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DeviantArt - The Largest Online Art Gallery and Community
DeviantArt is where art and community thrive. Explore over 650 million pieces of art while connecting to fellow artists and art enthusiasts.
Close - 12 Dreamwidth dreamwidth.org
online journal service
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AniList: Track, Discover, Share Anime & Manga
Track, discover, and share anime and manga with AniList. Discover top-rated and popular shows through reviews and recommendations. Sign up for free!
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Anime and manga database
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【エブリスタ】おすすめの携帯・web小説が無料で読める／小説投稿サイト
【エブリスタ】は、おすすめ／人気の恋愛小説・ファンタジー小説・BL小説などを無料で読める小説投稿サイトです。大人の恋・学園・オフィスラブなど、細かなジャンルまで検索できます。エブリスタから誕生した作品も多数！誰にでも小説家デビューのチャンスがあります！
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MangaDex
Read comics and manga online at MangaDex, with high quality images and support creators and translators!
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Mastodon.social
The original server of Mastodon, operated by Mastodon GmbH for the common good.
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international genealogy database
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user-generated content, revenue-sharing website founded in 2006
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Flipboard: Your Social Magazine
One place for all the stories you care about. Join the Flipboard community to discover and share what inspires you.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Archive of Our Own’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Archive of Our Own uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Archive of Our Own adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 3 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,195
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 25 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Archive of Our Own’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577173038c1af99-HAM
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS tadeo.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=8XHLhpSftMZE52eO6nnlVCaSzY23nWWf9PwDpGepz9E
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Google Workspace · not on archiveofourown.org 11/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Amazon SES · not on archiveofourown.org 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on archiveofourown.org 5/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on archiveofourown.org 4/20
- Yandex Webmaster · not on archiveofourown.org 3/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on archiveofourown.org 3/20
- Google Analytics · not on archiveofourown.org 3/20
- PHP · not on archiveofourown.org 3/20
- SendGrid · not on archiveofourown.org 2/20
- Atlassian · not on archiveofourown.org 2/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on archiveofourown.org 2/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on archiveofourown.org 2/20
- React · not on archiveofourown.org 2/20