We expect any disruption to be brief and quickly resolved, and with luck this should reduce the slowdowns that happen when garbage traffic volume spikes.

Performing some traffic maintenance today Happy Saturday!<br /><br />I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for `www.dreamwidth.org`) on the order of 2-3 minutes whi...

There may be some brief disruptions to service this afternoon as Mark flips some buttons and switches to improve our ability to block malicious/bot traffic: dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org/98343.html

In the meantime, if you would possibly be willing to submit a declaration to the court in any future lawsuit in your state if we think it would help the court to hear from you, let us know your interest here: dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/815.html

Someday we will build a pretty bill tracker frontend that will let us keep this updated more easily, but we'll try to freshen it up once a quarter or when the Magic 8 Ball starts quivering about a specific bill.

People ask us all the time if their state is considering a social media age verification law, and we've finally had the time to pull one together (with only *moderate* snark, even!) dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/1493.html

Now recruiting: DW users who would be interested in the possibility of helping us out in a legal challenge to state age verification laws, now or future! More details and where to register interest: dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/815.html

Last call for holiday bonus points! Promotion expires at midnight GMT, less than 12 hours from now. -K

Behold, an end-of-year miracle: the holiday points bonus pre-announcement post arrives before December does and it's actually a post-announcement post! Points bonus begins tomorrow: dw-news.dreamwidth.org/44816.html

We are tremendously sorry about both of these things, and we'll undo them as soon as we can. Thank you all so much for understanding why this fight is so important and caring so much that we fight it: we couldn't do it without you.

Reminder that we will begin geoblocking connections from Mississippi tonight, plus new news: we must also temporarily block signups from users under 18 from Tennessee. dw-news.dreamwidth.org/44774.html

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The news post we really didn't want to write: starting 1 September, we will need to temporarily block IP addresses from Mississippi from accessing Dreamwidth for legal reasons. We are so very sorry. More info: dw-news.dreamwidth.org/44429.html

We still don't know why textCaptcha isn’t working, so we’ve switched to reCaptcha for now. https://dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org/96598.html -K

Investigating reports of captchas on DW not being available. It looks like the textCaptcha site is down? -K

Hello, Bluesky! We are moving our offsite status page over here: follow this account for announcements when we can't reach dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org to update it (or you're likely to not be able to reach the site to read it)!