Back Up *MOSTLY*
All on-premises Squidge services (squidge.org, Image Hosting, SquidgeWorld, Classic Squidge, IRC) went down Thursday night at approximately 6pm Pacific time due to network issues. We seem to be mostly up this morning, with the exception of Classic Squidge which only hosts a very small number of websites that depend on a very insecure, outdated version […]
Read MoreUnplanned Downtime
We had some issues overnight, which led to our database server failing. Not sure why it didn’t auto-recover like it should have and we will investigate. Meanwhile, all services are back up (though SquidgeWorld is going through Sunday maintenance as I type this). If after all services are back up you notice anything odd, please […]
Read MoreIntermittent Outages
Apparently our ISP, Ziply Fiber, is having intermittent outages in the Pacific Northwest. We had a 45 minute downtime earlier, and a 15 minute downtime just now. If you can’t access any Squidge.org services with the exception of FenRecs.com (which is remote hosted) then please wait a bit and then retry. Sorry, but this seems […]
Read MoreBrief Downtime
We went down for approximately 45 minutes, apparently due to an ISP issue. Both our fiber lines seemed to be down simultaneously, which meant there was something in the ISP’s switching office that barfed and they had to bring things back up. Nothing within Squidge.org itself went down, but all services except for FenRecs.com seemed […]
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Short Outage
About an hour ago we went down for about 20 minutes, but things should be up and running smoothly now. We had a power issue (electrician is testing some things) so we had to flip the breaker. And while most items are protected via battery backup, one of our systems blurped and didn’t automatically come […]
Read MoreSquidge.org INC Financials for 2024
Attached is a list of financials for Squidge.org, INC for 2024. While we raised enough money to cover our expenses, because of legal requirements and filings, we actually didn’t quite cover all of our bills – so it’s a good thing we had a cushion in the bank to cover these expenses. As a breakdown: […]
Read MoreFenRecs.com Update
The rollout of FenRecs.com has gone so smoothly that I’ve decided to leave registrations open. That could change at any time, should we be inundated with bad actors, but for now I think we’re good. Fandom is doing good and so far things are awesome. The only issue that we’ve seen so far is with […]
Read MoreAnnouncing FenRecs.com – A Fandom Fic Rec and Discussion Community!
Squidge.org is proud to bring you FenRecs.com – a new site that’s designed to share fanfiction and other fanworks recommendations, as well as places for community discussion, from writing advice to beta requests to fandom and pairing recommendations. The site uses open-source software called Lemmy, and it is designed to be much like Reddit. If […]
Read MoreGauging Interest
So there’s been talk about fandom being too decentralized as of late, and I’ve had an idea that’s been rambling around my head for a while now. While it sounds good to me, I want to gauge interest before undertaking our Next Big Thing. Most people are at least a bit knowledgeable about Reddit – […]
Read MoreBrief Overnight (US) Outage
So one final holiday “gift” that we got was an overnight power outage (and in this case, gift is the German translation which means poison – thank you Grimm for teaching me that!). Power was out from about 2am until just before 6am, and there were a couple of burps that had to be resolved […]
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