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Originally Posted by texasnightowl
anyone having issues with AO3 today? just sitting at fetching metadata for minutes at a time. long enough that it says Calibre is not responding. I did update to 4.52 in case there was something changed or fixed, but same problem.
I last downloaded some stories on the 17th and had no issues at all.
edit: I also turned off my VPN in case that was the issue. But no change.
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I've been seeing the same thing intermittently for the last 3 days on AO3, most recently about 5 minutes ago. Have also had a few "page not found" errors, though these were able to be resolved by force reloading the page in the web browser.
As an FYI, I got a "Shields are Up" captcha when attempting the report the problem so it is entirely possible that AO3 is dealing with either an onslaught of AI training bots or yet another extended DDOS attack (or both, as one may mimic the other).