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Do you remember when the social internet wasn't owned by the same five companies? So do we. Independent, ad-free, user-supported social media, 15 years and counting, no billionaires involved. Code fork of LiveJournal. www.dreamwidth.org

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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 02/06/2026
This has been fixed now, and everything should have been fished out of the oubliette and sent along on its way.
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 02/06/2026
I don't bother signing posts when I'm the one in the announcement account because everybody can tell when it's me anyway 😂
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 02/06/2026
Post-by-email and reply-by-email are currently broken (looks like a casualty of last night's shenanigans) and will be fixed as soon as we finish fixing the other stuff, which is in progress! dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org/100037.html
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 02/06/2026
We're not giving up and we refuse to let them win, but the frustrated screaming of existential despair is definitely getting louder and more intense
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 02/06/2026
It is so dire right now. I've been doing this for like 24 years and I've never felt this level of despair for how hard you have to tread water just to not lose ground, and I was there for the early days of PageRank when you could spam your way to the top of Google search!
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 02/06/2026
So your first visit may be a bit slow at times of heavy load or high scraper activity, and logged out visits may be a bit slower than logged in visits at any time. We try to keep it relatively accessible to real people without an account, but we have to prioritize because it's grim out there!
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 02/06/2026
Part of our scraper filtering means we prioritize logged-in page loads first, then page loads from logged out users who are using an actual web browser and have visited the site before, then logged out actual web browsers on their first visit, then everything else.
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 02/06/2026
That's the "things may load slowly" problem, alas!
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 01/06/2026
I really am sorry that we haven't been able to solve it! But we're doing everything in our power and budget. We have a few other things we've been talking over, but they're really dramatic measures and none of the solutions are good. It's an enormous problem that's affecting the whole internet.
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 01/06/2026
It's absolutely apocalyptically dire out there right now for every single small site that can't afford to just throw increasingly more computing power at the problem, because the garbage traffic will consume every resource you can afford to throw at it, no matter what you do.
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 01/06/2026
We really are spending *ridiculous* amounts of time per week fighting slop traffic, and every problem can pretty much be traced back to it. Mark managed to knock out over 50% of our traffic, all garbage/not-real, last week. It helped for like two days.
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 01/06/2026
Mark will get the full fix once he's arrived at his destination and cleared customs and such. The site should work fine with the temporary fix in place, just possibly a little bit slower.
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 01/06/2026
Robby has put in a temporary fix for the variably-appearing posts, but the permanent fix will need Mark's expertise, and he's on an international flight right now (because of course). dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org/99606.html
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 01/06/2026
We have been doing everything we can to block the garbage without affecting site performance or blocking anyone who's not a bot, but they have a lot more resources than we do, sigh.
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 01/06/2026
We'll have normal site service restored as soon as we can; apologies! (It is almost certainly, once again, ultimately the fault of the goddamn bot traffic.)
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 14/03/2026
We expect any disruption to be brief and quickly resolved, and with luck this should reduce the slowdowns that happen when garbage traffic volume spikes.
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 14/03/2026
There may be some brief disruptions to service this afternoon as Mark flips some buttons and switches to improve our ability to block malicious/bot traffic: dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org/98343.html
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Performing some traffic maintenance today
Happy Saturday!<br /><br />I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for `www.dreamwidth.org`) on the order of 2-3 minutes whi...
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 09/03/2026
In the meantime, if you would possibly be willing to submit a declaration to the court in any future lawsuit in your state if we think it would help the court to hear from you, let us know your interest here: dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/815.html
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 09/03/2026
Someday we will build a pretty bill tracker frontend that will let us keep this updated more easily, but we'll try to freshen it up once a quarter or when the Magic 8 Ball starts quivering about a specific bill.
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 09/03/2026
People ask us all the time if their state is considering a social media age verification law, and we've finally had the time to pull one together (with only *moderate* snark, even!) dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/1493.html
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 21/02/2026
Now recruiting: DW users who would be interested in the possibility of helping us out in a legal challenge to state age verification laws, now or future! More details and where to register interest: dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/815.html
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dw_advocacy | Recruitment post!
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 31/12/2025
Last call for holiday bonus points! Promotion expires at midnight GMT, less than 12 hours from now. -K
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 30/11/2025
Behold, an end-of-year miracle: the holiday points bonus pre-announcement post arrives before December does and it's actually a post-announcement post! Points bonus begins tomorrow: dw-news.dreamwidth.org/44816.html
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 31/08/2025
We are tremendously sorry about both of these things, and we'll undo them as soon as we can. Thank you all so much for understanding why this fight is so important and caring so much that we fight it: we couldn't do it without you.
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 31/08/2025
Reminder that we will begin geoblocking connections from Mississippi tonight, plus new news: we must also temporarily block signups from users under 18 from Tennessee. dw-news.dreamwidth.org/44774.html
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 31/08/2025
No. :)
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 26/08/2025
The news post we really didn't want to write: starting 1 September, we will need to temporarily block IP addresses from Mississippi from accessing Dreamwidth for legal reasons. We are so very sorry. More info: dw-news.dreamwidth.org/44429.html
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 28/04/2025
We still don't know why textCaptcha isn’t working, so we’ve switched to reCaptcha for now. dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org/96598… -K
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 26/04/2025
Investigating reports of captchas on DW not being available. It looks like the textCaptcha site is down? -K
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 04/09/2024
Hello, Bluesky! We are moving our offsite status page over here: follow this account for announcements when we can't reach dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org to update it (or you're likely to not be able to reach the site to read it)!
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