SquidgeWorld 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 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 MoreEmbracing Original Works
First of all, I’d like to ask anyone who’s gotten access to do tag wrangling here on SquidgeWorld – we’re still flailing from the AO3 downtime. We’ve got over 10,000 tags between Characters, Relationships, and Freeform tags still yet to be wrangled. And if you’re interested in being a wrangler, let us know! Second, we […]
Read MoreSquidgeWorld – DOWN
From what I can tell, we were subject to some sort of attack that crippled the SquidgeWorld server. As such, we’ve banned the offending IP addresses that were sending thousands of requests per second (designed to overwhelm the server and bring it down), and have re-started the server. We went down about 11:30am Pacific Time, […]
Read MoreSquidgeWorld Status
The SquidgeWorld Archive came back up successfully a few hours ago – but I was too focused and enraged on what’s going on in the world instead of sending out an “up” notice like I normally do. So my apologies if anyone was waiting for me. Basically, it was my own fault. I changed a […]
Read MoreSquidgeWorld – Down
SquidgeWorld is down at the moment. Disk issue – but this isn’t a bad one now that we know what’s going on. We’ll be fixing some stuff, moving our backups to another partition, and then restart the archive in the next couple of hours. We should be up by about 12Noon Pacific at the latest.
Read MoreSquidgeWorld Maintenance Take 2
I think we’ve finally uncovered the last issue ::knock wood:: First off, a couple of months back, some of the internal components of SquidgeWorld failed, and we had to move the drives and RAM to a new piece of hardware. That hardware, while slower, was working fine until the internal disk drive became corrupted – […]
Read MoreSquidgeWorld – Back Up
As of right now, 11:53am on Tuesday, December 30th, 2025 SquidgeWorld Archive is back up and running! If you see any oddities, please don’t hesitate to let us know. For transparency, here’s basically what happened: The server had a hard disk corruption that had to be corrected Corrections were made, but there was an internal […]
Read MoreSquidgeWorld Down
Currently, SquidgeWorld.org is down due to disk corruption. We’re running some processes to clean up the corruption. Hope to have things up and running within the next couple of hours.
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