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Originally Posted by SMNonMR
FYI... Someone on reddit is claiming that they have downloaded the ENTIRE ff.net database using fanficfare. The person also said they are currently downloading all of AO3. Seems like a massive abuse of your resources if you ask me.
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Interesting. I'm not sure what to think about that.
Considering
Sturgeon's Law very much applies to fanfic, it doesn't strike me as a particularly good use of time and bandwidth. And I would have expected 2 chapters/second for 1.5 years to have tripped a network block, but I can think of cases where it wouldn't.
This may raise awareness of FanFicFare for a while. But if someone was willing to spend that much time at it, they could have added a couple more days and written their own downloader if needed. They had to have already done some additional scripting/changes to get it walk the entire site at that speed.