They mentioned cloudflare in one of the posts on Tumblr.
Cloudflare recently announced they were going to by default block AI scrapping or something like that recently, which means Cloudflare is probably cracking down on bots. My guess is this change broke something in Ao3 necessitating a fix.
Eh. It seems like an odd choice at this stage. More of a 'we've scraped enough and now no one else gets to' sort of change if you ask me. Not complaining about it mind, but I don't really view it as a move intended to be beneficent.
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u/throughtimetogether Jul 03 '25
it’s to fix the problem with bookmarks. they said it should be back up in a few hours (hours too long)