Understatement. This is all because of a file format and hosting site that their own "rules" are also very vague about? Seems pretty clear from this bureaucratic BS and the hoops they're requiring paper-pub'd writers to jump through that they don't give a rat's ass about preserving those works.

Sad and disappointing for those of us who feel fannish history is important and worth saving, and assumed AO3 was our haven and ally.