#retry later

[batfambrainrotbeloved]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

AO3 PLEASE- PLEASE- I KNOW I JUST SENT LIKE 100 REQUESTS BUT I GOT TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY THREE MORE *SOB*

[dioxydrawn]

Archive of our own is driving me furious with this “retry later” shit. I get that you’re trying to foil scrape bots, but you need to be useable by HUMANS!

I can’t have two tabs open or read stories under 5k words now because I read fast enough that I can’t open a second story when finished.

AO3 is trying to stop Elon but bots are programmed to wait patiently, so you’re only stopping us, your community.

[miaqc1]

The "retry later" on Ao3 is annoying. I want to delete my AI works!

[skullcandy11111198]

Nooooooooooooooooooo

[mooniace]

Is it just me or is something wrong with archive of our own?

[cacodaemonia]

I haven't seen any info about this going around, so just a heads up to anyone who has been getting this message when, say, replying to a bunch of short comments on AO3: the error message is related to all the spam on the site lately.

This is the message I got from support:

Thank you for contacting AO3 Support. For the past couple days AO3 has received a large number of spam comments that have been evading our automatic spam filter. To mitigate the issue we have put in place a limit to how many comments can be left from the same IP per minute, this is what is causing error you are encountering. We have been working on getting the situation fixed and this should be temporary. In the meantime, as a workaround, please wait over a minute between comments.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, please let us know if you have any further questions.

I just wanted to share that to save others from having to report it and AO3 staff from having to reply to the tickets.