On top of all other items that are once again running, all Sympa/Mailing lists are now populated and running. You can send messages and have them go out just like before. That said, our mail backup service (which holds email until it can be delivered to Squidge) is most likely caught up. So if you sent a message to the mailing list server and didn't see it come through, you'll probably want to resend it.

The Squidge.org upgrade is mostly complete. For most people, you have access to what you need, from Squidge Image, the Jinjurly Archive, and other web services. Here's a list of what I'm still working on, and why: Mailing lists: There are two parts to this that need attention and they are Mailing lists themselves: Email is being accepted by the system, but it is not being distributed to mailing list participants.

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 ::knock wood::. It will affect all services hosted on Squidge.org including Jinjurly, Image Hosting, email and mailing lists, and others. As always, let me know if you have questions.

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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 IRC (Discord, naturally, will remain up)

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 I don't know why. Ain't automation fun?

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 January due to our old service provider going out of business.

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 performance issues, and we'll be back.

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 on the fence about donating and can spare a few dollars, it would be awesome if you could donate.

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 we anticipate everything to be operational around 7:30am (14:30 UTC). If you have questions, please let us know. And if you see any service that's down, also let us know.  Thanks!

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 we have raised $1,600.97 out of our $2,500 goal - or 64%!

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 our fundraising image, here you go:

Please note & share about upcoming changes to Squidge Image Hosting Image hosting will go down for approximately 30 minutes at 12Noon Pacific time today. This means everything - you cannot sign up, you cannot upload images, you cannot look at an image URL. Images that are embedded elsewhere like AO3 or SqWA will not work during this timeperiod. When Image Hosting comes back up, there should be no changes to the end-users.

First, our little datacenter went down with a power issue overnight. We were down about 6 hours total, but things should be back up and running.  If you see any issues, please don't hesitate to contact us. That said, it's a good time to address something in our Terms of Service. We invite you to use all of our services, and even suggest more services that we might be able to bring to the community.

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We started doing Image Hosting, and honestly it's been quite a hit. We've had lots of use, and very little abuse. So far we're at about 550 Gb worth of images, which is incredible. Thank you to everyone for participating. In anticipation of us moving to both image and video hosting, we started some research and found what we considered to be a low-cost online storage.

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 know there are quite a lot of people who not only write fanfiction, but original fiction as well - fiction that is&hellip;

Because this is going around Tumblr, I thought I would address the issue. An assertion by an individual on Tumblr is going around calling me/Squidge/SquidgeWorld a fascist organization that deletes works with no cares or such. That we're power hungry, etc.. Is there truth in this? If you know BOTH sides and not just the individual that's accusing us of this, you'll understand.

First off, SquidgeWorld didn't fully come up this morning, but that's because we've been working on Squidge Images. Our new anti-bot software didn't start as it was supposed to, but that has been found and corrected. So SquidgeWorld is up and running now. Squidge Image Hosting went through an upgrade this morning and everything is working - with a limitation. Image hosting is there, and works like normal under the new code.

In just under an hour from the time of this post (at 08:00 Sunday Morning Pacific Time) Squidge Images will go down for an upgrade. No official ETA on when it will be back up, but hopefully this afternoon. Need a reminder why? Read the original post.

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Two very updates for Squidge Images. The first update is we have opened up signup access for Squidge Images. Instead of having to leave us a ticket for an image hosting account, we have decided that it's been long enough, and the folks who were abusing image hosting have most likely moved on. So all that is done. Second, and most important, Squidge Image Hosting 

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, and should be up by 1pm Pacific Time. Coincidentally, we got the usual "you rape fetisists and pedophiles!" abuse this morning, so more than likely the antis are behind the attack.

In the last couple of weeks our image hosting seems to be being taken over by porn hosting and such. Everyone should know that we are here for fandom - whether that is NSFW or not. So yes, we allow nude images and such. But we seem to have been taken over by a few users who only post "porn for porn's sake".  

For those who have been using FenRecs.com - Squidge.org's fanworks recommendation site where you can rec your favorite fandoms, stories, pairings and such - thank you!  We've been going strong and sharing recommendations, which is what's needed in the fandom community. Our host provider for FenRecs.com is shutting down in less than a month.  As such, we will be taking down the site and importing it into a new host.  

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 backup structure without calculating the correct space needed, and ran up against all the available disc space on the server.