If You Use AO3 to Download ebooks...

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We also fixed the dreaded 500 error that came up if you were the first person to download a file!

Since I was apparently the first downloader about 50% of the time, this is especially happy news for me!

Comments

[yhlee]

Oh, huzzah!

Haha, I was apparently the first downloader a bunch of the time too. (I'd been wondering what caused that.) I am grateful to the AO3 folks!

[jumpuphigh]

I didn't know what was causing it either until I saw that it was fixed. Hurray!

[boundbooks]

Sweet, thank you for the news!

[jumpuphigh]

You're welcome!

[trialia]

Oh, ha. That explains a lot. I kept getting those. Thanks!

[jumpuphigh]

Welcome! I'm glad it's fixed.

[musyc]

LOL is that why that was happening? Huzzah for the fix!

[jumpuphigh]

I didn't know either. I'm glad it's fixed though!

[asenathwaite]

Awesomesauce.

[isis]

AHA! That explains all the mysterious errorings.

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I know! I was so excited to see this.

[fred_mouse]

Thanks for this - I got the error often enough I went back to using PDF, but it seemed so random I assumed I was doing something silly, not that there was a bug!

[jumpuphigh]

I didn't know what was wrong but it always worked for me when I hit the back button and tried again so I just grumbled to myself and tried again. Sometimes, though, I was the first downloader to enough fics in an evening that I just gave up due to the annoyance factor.

[fred_mouse]

have just tested this - the first one that I tried the 'download as pdf' rather than using the inbuilt print to pdf that my mac has, and I get an unknown error page instead. Back button and trying again gives the same error. So, back to my tried and true method! It would appear that my problem was possibly not the 'first downloader' issue.

[jumpuphigh]

That does sound like a separate issue. The first downloader issue definitely gave a 500 error. Have you reported it as a bug?