Ovarit will be permanently shutting down on April 27, 2025.

I've been burned out for a long time. This probably is evident to many of you who have followed along for a while. I had hoped for a long time that once we met a milestone or something changed I would find more motivation to double down and do even more work required to expand and improve the site. But it's not happening. It's a lot of work just to maintain this site, let alone expand or improve it. It's often boring, difficult, draining, or stressful, and it's uncompensated. And it's very difficult to recruit people to do free work for a project that you're burned out on yourself.

I want to thank everyone who's put money, work, and effort into this project. I also want to thank everyone who participated in good faith, helped other women, and added a bit of value to other people's lives through contributing your posts and comments. Many of you have be a pleasure to serve, and I've learned so much from you and so much from doing this.

Hopefully this amount of time gives you all enough time to save your writing, archive anything you wish to, and network with people you'd like to keep in touch with.

All automatic payments will be cancelled when we close, and we'll be deleting the site database and most emails (threats or other concerns will be retained at my discretion).

This decision has been considered over a long period of time and is final. For the privacy and security of our users we will not be considering offers to buy or transfer the site.

If you have questions or concerns please let me know. Use modmail to contact the admins privately ('message the moderators' button in the o/Ovarit or o/Announcements circle sidebar).