Squidge.org Extra Downtime + Reminder
In anticipation of tomorrow’s big downtime, I need to swap out a drive case so that we’re better situated for tomorrow’s upgrade. To do so, I’ll be taking down Squidge.org for a 15-30 minutes downtime today at 3pm Pacific Time. Doing this will make the preparation and build out of the new machine go faster […]
Read MoreSquidge.org Upgrade: DOWNTIME
We will be underaking some big changes while we switch hardware for Squidge.org and various other homepages and such. In order to do so, the following servers will be down ALL of Sunday, September 6th, 2026. Here’s a list of what WILL be down: squidge.org’s main webserver, including all personal homepages Squidge Image Hosting Squidge […]
Read MorePost Dump to Dreamwidth?
Yeah, we’re curious about as to how it happened as well. Something must have triggered it accidentally, perhaps a plugin update or something. But for whatever reason if you’re on Dreamwidth and the SquidgeStatus Blog (a mirror of this blog hosted on Squidge.org) dumped a bunch of duplicate posts, I can’t tell you why. Because […]
Read MoreSquidge Weekend News
So let’s get the good and the really good news out of the way first. Good news that should have been brought up a few months back, but because things were so crazy we didn’t get a chance: FenRecs.com is back! If you were part of FenRecs.com, you’ll know that we went down in mid […]
Read MoreSquidge Image Hosting
Please note that Squidge Image Hosting is currently working, but there is no way to currently sign up. Do not send in requests. Do not open trouble tickets. Do not attempt to sign up. We are having performance issues and cannot guarantee your request won’t get lost in the shuffle. Let us work out the […]
Read MoreSquidgeWorld Discussion And Fundraising Update
Let’s get the fun stuff out of the way first. With thanks to the 53 distinct donors so far, Squidge’s Hot Fic Summer Fundraiser is nearly there! So far we have raised $2,269.82 out of our goal of $2,500. Hitting our goal means keeping the lights on for another year. So if you’ve been sitting […]
Read MoreOvernight Outage
Sometime during the middle of the night, there was a power blurp here in the Pacific Northwest that took out our little datacenter. Things started coming back up around 5am Pacific Time (12:00 UTC) and all services but SquidgeWorld are now up. SquidgeWorld takes about 2 hours to process everything and finish coming up, so […]
Read MoreFundraising, Squidge Images, Commission Spammers, and Maintenance
Let’s Catch Up! We often find ourselves answering the same questions over and over again – so let’s post this for everyone to read. First off, it’s been way too long since we’ve given everyone an update on our fundraising. We started at the beginning of June, 2026, for our “Hot Fic Summer” fundraiser, and […]
Read MoreSqWA Default Configuration Change
We’re going to implement a configuration change for SquidgeWorld Archive that will affect all users that post fanworks and allow comments. Long story short, the “Comment Moderation” functionality will be enabled for all new works by default. This is the one we mean: Long story long, our recent influx of commission spammers, including the clown […]
Read MoreSquidge’s Summer Fundraiser Is Here!
It’s finally June – okay, a few days into it – and here in the Northern Hemisphere we’re all about Summer! School is getting out, summer schedules are coming into play, and so it’s time for Squidge’s yearly fundraising push. What is the theme this year? Hot Fic Summer! And if you needed to see […]
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