It's the same software that the OTW uses for AO3 - so yes. We're just implemented differently and are independent of OTW/AO3.

Remember when Microsoft forgot to renew passport.com or something and they had to buy it back from some random?

The above is me - sorry! I replied via the BSKY app, not remembering to change from my personal account.

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.

Post by @squidgiepdx · 1 image 💬 1  🔁 3  ❤️ 5 · Squidgeworld Spam ·  I get badmouthed for banning people on SquidgeWorld who violate the Terms of Service. They think I can't watch their behavior, like today. I was accused of ba…

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.

I translated this, but I honestly don't know what you're trying to convey to us. Please let us know.

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…

SquidgeWorld – DOWN

From what I can tell, we were subject to some sort of attack that crippled the SquidgeWorld server. As such, we've banned the offending IP addresses that were sending thousands of requests per second (designed to overwhelm the server and bring it down), and have re-started the…

Image Hosting + FenRecs.com Status

In the last couple of weeks our image hosting seems to be being taken over by porn hosting and such. Everyone should know that we are here for fandom - whether that is NSFW or not. So yes, we allow nude images and such. But we seem to have been taken over by a…

FenRecs.com – Transition of Service

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…

SquidgeWorld Status

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…

SquidgeWorld – Down

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…

SquidgeWorld Maintenance Take 2

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…

SquidgeWorld is acting up again; something is corrupting part of the search system, and we're trying to bring things back up. We hope to be back up by 12Noon Pacific today.

For those fandom elders like me who actually still have LJ accounts - FYI.

SquidgeWorld – Back Up

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…

SquidgeWorld Down

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.

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…

It's like a conservative Christian person arguing that letting gay people marry is against their chosen religion.

Don't tell others what do do with their fandom experience. Full stop.

It's telling other people what they can and cannot read/write. People ask that we ban anything to do with many situations - underage, rape, violence, etc..

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…