SquidgeWorld Maintenance – Unexpected Downtime We're having an unexpected issue with our SquidgeWorld machine, and are actively working the issue. We hope to be back up asap. No current ETA.

For those of you that like to do skins for #AO3 and/or #SqWA - check it out!

It's 2025 and it tickles me that people are still writing M.A.S.H. fanfiction, even though the show went off the air decades ago. Fandom is the definition of "Keep Hope Alive."

And we have received our first "Go kill yourself" comment from someone who objects to this. Instead of doing shit like this - and it IS shit to tell someone to kill themselves - go and build your own archive. Details are here: squidgeworld.org/works/34491?...

Underage/RPF Clarification We've had a huge influx of people to SquidgeWorld in the last week or so, and it seems to come down to an incident at AO3 with underage fics.  This email is to respond to the half a dozen emails/trouble tickets that we've gotten asking us to clarify our stance on the…

We are thinking about adding an explicit rule stating NO GATEKEEPING. Fandom is astronomically large, and we have safeguards in place for questionable fics - locked to registered users only and labelled as such. Gatekeepers will be banned.

SquiddigeWorld Archive – Coming Back Up! The SquidgeWorld Archive should be up before 3pm Pacific Time today, which means a total downtime of about 30 hours. You should know, however, that while we were able to bring up the server on new hardware, that hardware is underpowered.  Not as much RAM as…

SquidgeWorld Downtime – An Update So we had an equipment failure for The SquidgeWorld Archive that makes the current machine unusable.  We're weighing options, but there will be no update available for the immediate future.  We will be back up, but it's going to depend on a few things.  First of…

SquidgeWorld Unplanned Downtime The SquidgeWorld Archive is currently offline due to a hardware issue.  We hope to be back up asap.

SquidgeWorld Updates If you're part of SquidgeWorld Archive, you may notice that the site will be down briefly throughout the day - today, October 26th, 2025.  This is because we are going to be adding a few things here and there to add links to Squidge.org's fandom offerings in the Community…

SquidgeWorld has not quite come back from maintenance yet. Once a month we do maintenance not just on the SqWA server, but the database server as well, and that adds up the amount of downtime we have. But it's getting close to being back up, so give us a few and we'll be fully back!

Squidge’s Summer Sleepaway Camp Fundraiser I'm over the moon to let everyone know that this year's annual fundraiser, the Summer Sleepaway Camp fundraiser has brought in $2,923.84.  That will definitely get us through the next twelve months of our hosting, legal, and other bills.  Thank you…

@perclexed.bsky.social I think - after all this time - I've finally fixed the IRC issue with reboots. Can you confirm for me?

Two Important Updates! First and foremost, while Squidge.org hosts the Jinjurly Podfic Archive, we do not control the domain name.  The domain name is still maintained by the original owner.  Having said that, the Jinjurly archive domain name expired - and all we can do is ask the current domain…

OMG is the new Scotty a pocket-gay? He looks like a pocket-gay.

Hosting (including Squidge Images) FYI Right now we're needing to adjust some webserver configurations, because the site seems to be hanging and not allowing connections randomly. Things are there - it's just the webserver needs to be tuned to prevent this from happening. We'll be doing…

Squidge.org & Image Hosting Recent Downtimes This morning the system seemed to have barfed and took image hosting down along with everything else it was serving to the web.  I've got things back up at the moment, but haven't finished checking all hosted sites to make sure everything is good.…

The main Squidge.org webserver, which controls webservices, Image hosting, IRC, and mailing list went down briefly for an emergency maintenance event. It should be up & stable once again.

Squidge’s Summer Sleepaway Camp Fundraiser We started our Summer Sleepaway Camp Fundraiser on the first day of Summer 2025, and I'm proud to say that we have managed to reach - and surpass - our goal! Over the last three weeks, generous donors have stepped forward and together, we have raised…

Still offering drabbles for any donation if we share a fandom

Summer Sleepaway Camp Fundraising Update Just to keep everyone in touch with what's going on with our yearly fundraiser, we're getting close!  Our yearly goal is to raise at least $2,000 so that we can get through the next year, and as of 3pm Pacific Time today, we've raised $1,792.16 - almost 90%…

Announcing: Squidge’s Summer Sleepaway Camp Fundraiser 2025! It's Summer here in North America, and that means Squidge's annual fundraiser is kicking off!  Once a year we raise funds to get us through until the next year, with a goal of at least $2,000.  Can we do it again this year? The theme of…

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…

Complete network failure at my ISP. No ETA.

Woke up to a power outage today, affecting all systems. ETA is currently 90 minutes from the time of this skeet.

Our database failed overnight instead of doing a graceful recovery - something even I can't do. Things were corrected, so everything is back and flowing properly now. If you see issues, let us know. Thanks!

Unplanned 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…

Intermittent 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…

Brief 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…

Image Hosting – RESOLVED We attempted an upgrade (a one-click, no mess upgrade which bombed) to get around a defect, but it bombed last night and no amount of pleading and prodding would get it to work. So this morning we're live on the older version of our image hosting software and things are…

Image Hosting DOWN Image hosting ( is currently down. It will be up as soon as we're able to.  Please be aware that if this takes longer than expected, image hosting will become password-protected and unavailable until released.

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…

Squidge.org financials for 2024 have just been published. Details here: squidgestatus.dreamwidth.org/112254.html

New Blog Post: Seeking A Graphic Artist! If you have graphic artist experience, we need you. Link: www.squidge.org/blog/archive...

Please spread this information to all authors you know - traditionally published and self published. One of my own books is listed as being used to train Meta's AI.

Just FYI SquidgeWorld.org will be going down at 08:15 for about 30-45 minutes for emergency downtime.

An update on FenRecs.com can be found here: www.squidge.org/blog/archive...

Announcing FenRecs.com - A fandom fic recs and discussion site, brought to you from Squidge.org. Detail post here: www.squidge.org/blog/archive...

New Post on the Squidge.org Blog: Guaging Interest on a new project. Please give it a read and let us know your thoughts! Link: www.squidge.org/blog/archive...

Brief outage overnight. Details here: www.squidge.org/blog/archive...

It's Giving Tuesday! Can you help keep Squidge up and running? Link: www.squidge.org/blog/archive...

Instead of making people follow a bridge between the Fediverse and BlueSky, we've created a handle just for us on BlueSky. So here we are! Squidge.org - A Space for Fandom because Fandom Deserves a Space!