The site has been largely inactive since roughly 2017. It suffered a major server failure in mid-2017 and dropped offline entirely in July 2022. While it reappeared in 2023, it did so with no new content The "New Authors" Section:

Highly segmented categories making it easy for targeted readers to find your work.

Widely regarded by communities on ⁠Reddit's Erotic Authors forum as the most viable spiritual successor. AO3 features robust tagging systems, allows original work, and maintains a strict anti-censorship stance regarding fictional adult themes.

Welcome to the archive, new author. Keep writing. The lurkers are reading.

: Often cited as a primary destination for erotic fiction writers following ASSTR's decline. Archive of Our Own (AO3)

Stories can be uploaded via FTP (File Transfer Protocol) or through web-based submission forms, depending on the current server infrastructure.

If you are trying to reach the site and find it down, you may want to look for mirrors or archives on communities like

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