This is what I am seeing as well. It could be either one of these calls that is taking longer than expected. On a side note, we should probably enforce a shorter timeout window on these requests.
https://myopenhab.org/rest/items?metadata=alexa,channel,synonyms&recursive=true (please see below)
https://myopenhab.org/rest/services/org.eclipse.smarthome.core.i18nprovider/config
@omatzyo can you try to access the URLs above via your browser after initially logging successfully to your myopenhab account and let us know if you noticed a delay in response?
@ftarquini just for your information, I noticed the same behavior in the skill logs with your discovery requests. Would you be able to try accessing the same URLs?
Update
The items call listed above has now been changed to resolve the timeout issue. If you would like to determine if you would be still affected by a timeout > 8s, please use the below call instead: