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.

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.

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 - so earlier this week we ran through a disk correction, which led to a database file corruption and then cleanup.

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 database that contained further corruption. The internal database was replaced with a backup so that the "redis" server (software that is required for SqWA to run) would come back up as well…

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.

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.

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 issue.  Even though it's explicitly stated in the SqWA Posting Help section…

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 the old server, and the processor isn't as fast.  But in a way it's better to get things rolling again rather than having them sit around, waiting on a part that won't be here for a few weeks. Thank you for your understanding!

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 all, we just ordered the necessary equipment as a backup, but we're going to attempt to move the "innards" of the server to a new machine that we have already on hand.

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

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 links/page, as well as additional clarification information for commenting.  The Community links additions will link to some of our pages on Dreamwidth where you can get additional information about Squidge and learn about challenges that are currently happening, and the additional information for posting comments is around discouraging commission spammers from posting. As always, if you've got questions, don't hesitate to contact us!

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 everyone who donated!  We could not be here without you all! Over the next few days, the stickers will go out to anyone who donated more than $10.  And in the next week, the t-shirts will be printed and sent to people who donated $100 or more.

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 holder to renew it for us.  So we're waiting for that.  But, in the event this type of things happened, we preemptively registered the domain name AudioFicArchive.org for us to use.  

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 adjustments over the next week. If the site doesn't load for you, wait a couple minutes and reload, and you'll be fine.

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.  It'll be back to normal asap.