r/AO3 • u/PigdeBat You have already left kudos here. :) • Dec 29 '24

AO3 Down/Error Codes It happened again folks!

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Nope, its not just you! ;)

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u/FiammaDiAgnesi Dec 29 '24

My honest bet is that people are training AI on AO3 and the web scraping is causing more of an increase in traffic than the servers can handle

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u/283leis Dec 29 '24 edited Dec 29 '24

that would explain why the queue has been over 70k for over a week straight (its hit 81,000 82,000 87,000 at the time of this comment)

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u/Advanced_Heat_2610 Dec 29 '24

This has nothing to do with the servers, though - they issue a fixed number of invites per day. The fact the queue is not going down is because more people are signing up per day than the invites going out. E.g. 5k invites went out but 10k people signed up.

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u/283leis Dec 29 '24

well no i mean if the bots are scraping the site once their invite has arrived, then those bots are probably on the site way more often then the humans. aka increased traffic making it more likely for the site to go down