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.

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 $2,187.46 - almost 10% above our goal!  We should be in good form for the next year, but the fundraiser will continue in case anyone wants to donate, with the chance to get either a sticker (with $10 minimum donation) or a t-shirt (with a minimum $100 donation).

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% of our goal! If you can help get us to our goal, or just need more information about the fundraiser, including the cool design on either a sticker or t-shirt you get for donating, you can…

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 this Summer's fundraiser is "Summer Sleepaway Camp" - so let's get camping, shall we?  And to go with that theme, we'll be offering t-shirts and stickers for those that donate.  

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 small number of websites that depend on a very insecure, outdated version of PHP.  That said, there could still be burps here and there.  If you have questions, please let us know.  Thanks!

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 services are back up you notice anything odd, please let us know.

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 please wait a bit and then retry.  Sorry, but this seems to be out of our control. As always, you can open a trouble ticket by clicking here if you see something amiss.