[ownedbycats]

Also, a bit of a thought:

Sometimes authors unexpectedly delete stories (or I forgot to subscribe), so once in a while I like to go through and check updates on fics that haven't updated for a while to see whether they return an error (or have unexpected updates from forgetting to subscrib), and if they do I can then move them to the Abandoned status.

However, I've stopped doing this. Running "update if new chapters" on a bunch of stories I am worried might contribute to the Cloudflare issue, and I'd rather not update metadata on everything.

Would it be much effort to have an additional option somewhere in FFF to check only the first chapter of a fic to see if it's still valid and update the error column if not? I'm not sure how much of a corner case this is.