You Can Now Support Squidge.org With an Online Donation!
Squidge.org is not only an official 501c3 here in the United States, meaning you can take a tax deduction for donating to us – we’re now officially taking donations! It’s been a long journey, but we’re finally here! If you are interested, you can make a donation via our donation platform partner, Aplos at this […]
Read MoreIt’s Giving Tuesday!
Like just about every other non-profit out there – and quite a few for-profit corporations that are trying to hijack Giving Tuesday into a capitlistic way of selling more junk – we’re here to tell you that it’s Giving Tuesday. Today is supposed to be about supporting non-profits that make a difference in your life. […]
Read MoreSquidge Images – User Signups Temporarily Disabled
Please note that due to an influx of bad agents, signups for Squidge Images are temporarily disabled. Yeah, I wish we didn’t have to do it, either. But because of people not in fandom who are trying to use anonymous hosting for non-fandom things like rape/snuff images and for-sale/commercial listings, we’ve shut down signups. The only […]
Read MoreSquidge Image Hosting
Image hosting from Squidge.org is here for fandom. If you’re using it for fandom, then you’re in the right place and have nothing to worry about. Even if you’ve got a fandom account and you choose to post pictures of concert tickets, or that really cool vase that you found in an antique store when […]
Read MorePodfics & The Internet Archive
By now, many of you have heard what’s going on over at The Internet Archive. But if you haven’t, you can read up on the attack here. Our hearts go out to them, as well as those podficcers who choose to archive their works at The Archive. If you are a podficcer and you’ve lost […]
Read MoreSystem Status
As an FYI, we had a bit of a blup this morning which caused all Squidge.org services to be down for a short while (less than a minute). However, SquidgeWorld Archive did not come back immediately, so we had to perform a hard reset. The server should be back up withing about 20 minutes. If […]
Read MoreSquidge Support – Email Issue
Though it was unknown to us until now, email support tickets were being delivered to our Helpdesk system Freescout, and we were acting on them. However, due to an internal configuration issue (that was hidden to us until this morning) emails were not going OUT. So if you get an email about a ticket that […]
Read MoreSquidge’s Summer of Ships Fundraiser
If you haven’t seen the post over on SquidgeWorld Archive, the Summer of Ships fundraiser has almost hit our fundraising target of $2,000 for the year! We’re 95.8% there, and I’m confident that we’ll hit our target soon. For those of you that haven’t donated, please do if you can! If you can’t, that’s cool […]
Read MoreSquidgeWorld Downtime
After normal maintenance this morning, SquidgeWorld did not come back up. It’s a problem not with the archive, but with the underlying configuration of the webserver. I think the issue is resolved, and the Archive is slowly coming back. We’ll know soon if we have to bring the archive down again. Hopefully it was just […]
Read MoreSummer of Ships Donation Details
Our Summer of Ships fundraiser is up and running, and a huge thank you to everyone who has donated so far! As mentioned in the original post, we will be offering gifts for those who give at certain levels. Here are the final details: Everyone who gives will get a copy of our Summer of […]
Read MoreSummer of Ships Fundraiser!
It’s not only summertime up here in the Northern Hemisphere, but it’s also time for Squidge.org’s annual fundraiser! This year, we’re going for the theme of Summer of Ships! It’s Summer, and fandom is almost always about ships – whether it be the popular Jack/Daniel or Sheppard/McKay from the Stargate series to the not-so-subtle Myka […]
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