Squidge.org, A Space for Fans

The Whole Squidge Images Debacle - A Post Morteml. With apologies to the users I caused undo problems. You can read it on the Squidge Blog here: blog.squidge.org/archives/471

After our self-imposed 24 hour downtime due to PHP vulnerabilities, we have patched our PHP versions, and are back! All sites should be up and functioning. If you see something, please log a ticket. Thanks!

FYI, due to PHP vulnerabilities, all webhosting services on Squidge.org (including Squidge Images, custom domains, etc) are DOWN. They will be back ASAP once patches are released.

After my apology and explanation is posted, I will be deleting previous consent screen skeets, etc. so that everyone is on the same page.

The move back into our little datacenter is complete, and things seem to be stable. As always, log a ticket if you see oddities.

Short Squidge.org downtime Sunday AM for most Squidge services. Details here: blog.squidge.org/archives/459

@perclexed.bsky.social Hey - I think IRC is up? Can you let me know, please? :)

Sympa/Mailing Lists Up and Running 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)…

Squidge Upgrade: Status 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…

Huzzah - one more package fixed the sendmail problem, so that's done. Sympa (Mailing Lists) remain down, including the web interface. If I'm not mistaken, that might be the last thing (other than old sites needing PHP < v8) needed. Let us know if you find breakage.

ALL Webservices on Squidge.org (homepages, archives, etc) have been made available. But please note that some older sites that are dependent on lower versions of PHP may not be working. Sympa (and the list interface) remains down for the time being.

Support is up, but I'm not 100% sure it will be sending emails so we're checking. support.squidge.org

And now Jinjurly Audiofic Archive is up.

Squidge Images is back up. BUT, it's the first service back up post upgrade so please let me know here or on Discord if you see issues.

All RAID structures are complete; just have to wait while it's internal journal finishes behind the scenes. The machine is online but disconnected from everything as I finish the configuration of ::waves hands:: EVERYTHING. Hopeful ETA is 12Noon Pacific Time. Cross your fingers!

Update: Images are complete. But the Jinjurly archive is massive, so it's going to take some time to move 2.7Tb of data from one hdd to another (yes, hard drives not SSDs as we're not made of money!). Hopefully it finishes tonight and we'll be able to finish setup tomorrow. ::crosses fingers::

Squidge.org Move Progress: New machine up and running, but it would not recognize the disks for image hosting. This means we have to transfer the data from one machine to another, reformat/recreate the RAID, and then move it back. Will definitely be at least 24 hours more.

Squidge.org Extra Downtime + Reminder 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…

Oh yeah - Totally escaped me that Squidge.org is officially 32 years old this month! While our origins began in 1992, it wasn't official until we registered the domain in September, 1994. Here's to many more years in fandom!

REMINDER! Squidge.org, along with Squidge Images, Jinjurly Podfic Hosting, Personal Webpages, Email, and Sympa Mailing List Server will ALL BE DOWN starting Sunday Sept 6th, 2026 starting at 6am Pacific Time for up to 24 hours (longer if things go pear shaped).

Squidge.org Upgrade: DOWNTIME 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…

Remember, if you sign up for Squidge Images for your free image hosting and then start charging people to see them, a la Patreon and such, you WILL BE BANNED. People making money off of a non-profit's services jeopardize that non-profit's status. Go rip off some mega-corporation. Not us.

Post Dump to Dreamwidth? 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…

Squidge Weekend News 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…

Squidge Image Hosting 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…

SquidgeWorld Discussion And Fundraising Update 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…

Overnight Outage 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…

Power blurp overnight took out most Squidge services. We're coming back up now!

Fundraising, Squidge Images, Commission Spammers, and Maintenance 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…

Configuration Change Coming to SquidgeWorld Archive Which Should Help Dealing With Commission Spammers. Details: www.squidge.org/blog/archive...

Squidge’s Summer Fundraiser Is Here! 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…

The urge to re-read the amazing A Farm in Iowa series comes and goes, but never goes below like 5%.

Image Hosting Changes Upcoming 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…

Overnight Update + TOS Clarification 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…

Action Alert! Give the FCC feedback on a proposed rule that would force labels on media that feature our Trans brothers, sisters, and nonbinary folks. Link for details: thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/325499.html

We had a power blurp that took out our little datacenter overnight. We're back up and running now.

At A Crossroads for Image Hosting 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…

I don't know this author, nor this fandom, but author? You're my favorite human being. Ever.

Embracing Original Works 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…

“OMG YOU’RE A FASCIST” and other adventures in modding SquidgeWorld 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.…

Feel free to backup your fics and other fanworks to SquidgeWorld Archive! We're independent from the AO3/OTW but use the same software, so you're already familiar with the functionality of the Archive software. Squidgeworld.org

Image Hosting - Now With Video Support! But, please familiarize yourself with the limitations on image and video hosting by reading here: www.squidge.org/blog/archive...

Image Hosting + SquidgeWorld 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…

REMINDER: Squidge Images GOING DOWN 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.

A note about spammers in the archive. Link: www.tumblr.com/squidgiepdx/...

CONFIGURATION CHANGE: SquidgeWorld now has an anti-bot webserver plugin running that should keep bots away. You shouldn't see anything different besides maybe a pause with an "Are you human?" screen.

Squidge Images – PLEASE READ! 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…