fanfiction.net down

[Tennie]

tl;dr: they forgot to renew their domain name registration.

I actually saw speculation in that direction earlier on places like the r/FanFiction Subreddit, but I guess we now actually have confirmation that such is indeed the case.

And yeah, given their seemingly laissez-faire approach to moderation and whatnot, something like this happening was certainly a possibility at the very least (a possibility that, in this case, ended up actually happening).

The administration team really needs to step up their game when it comes to dealing with these types of situations!