Help Restore the Audiofic Archive

ride_4ever posted: Help Restore the Audiofic Archive

squidgiepdx and mific -- bless them for putting their love of fandom into this action -- are coordinating fen to help with the restoration of the Jinjurly Audiofic Archive after the hacking catastrophe that led to the disappearance of a vast number of podfics from the Archive. If you have podfics to share, you may be able to help this effort, and even if you don't have podfics to share you could help with downloading, renaming, and zipping files.

For how to help, including use of the spreadsheet created for this purpose, see the squidgestatus post on DW.

Livejournal CrossPosting PSA

dw_maintenance posted: (no subject)

We've received multiple reports of crossposting to LiveJournal silently failing, and many people have asked us about the problem. Unfortunately, the issue is not one that we can resolve: it happens when someone has automatic crossposting set up and has changed their LiveJournal password, but hasn't updated the password on their Dreamwidth crosspost settings. The number of failed logins trip LiveJournal's "attempted account hacking" detection system and our IP addresses are locked out from the site.

For a decade or so, when this happened, we were able to contact them and have them remove us from the lockout list manually and whitelist our IP address range so that it wouldn't happen again. At some point in the last several years, they switched to telling us that the blocking is automatic, they aren't able to whitelist any IPs manually, and that we were mistaken when we were able to resolve the issue for a decade by emailing them and having them whitelist us manually; by this point, they no longer respond to us at all about the issue. (The delay in our posting about the issue has been, once again, us attempting to contact them unsuccessfully and getting no reply.)

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