# 'Survival Guides' and the Great Migration

With no timeline for a fix, readers organized themselves: shared Google Docs circulated with downloaded stories so people could keep reading, while some writers began moving to other platforms such as Inkitt. The response was covered by WIRED and The New York Times - a signal of how central the archive had become to its community.

## Key facts

- Fans created "survival guides," including shared Google Docs of downloaded stories, to keep reading during the outage.
- Some writers and readers began migrating to other platforms, including Inkitt.
- The community response was reported by WIRED and The New York Times.
- The archive hosts more than 18 million works for about 11 million registered users, which made the collective scramble unusually large.
- The outage was expected to last at least two weeks and up to four.

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