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just not for long, for long ⌛ ([personal profile] larissa) wrote2025-09-09 06:46 am
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2025 week 36

decided to go to bed instead of writing this post last night. correct decision, i think.

tbh i've been sleeping pretty garbage lately. my sleep has always been bad, but i'm really sick of waking up at 4am and being unable to go back to sleep. let me rest, body!!

didn't get much productive done last week on account of there being new ff14 content for me to do... whoops. i did have a few busy days with IRL stuff, as well. i did manage a little fic writing, but i'm on the worst chapter of the whole thing so it's slow going. in theory i'd like to start posting the fic soon, but i'd like a buffer of chapters and my writing pace has been far too slow for that of late...

this week however my schedule is much more free, so i'm hoping to make progress on at least some of these fronts. i'd love to get webstuff done in particular... but we'll see.

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just not for long, for long ⌛ ([personal profile] larissa) wrote2025-09-01 07:23 pm

2025 week 35

hmm. i feel like the last week was a blur...

honestly, it's been a bit touch and go. pain levels have been high and have kept me from doing some of the stuff i've wanted to do — although i did finally get back to trails in the sky the 3rd, if nothing else. this game feels a lot shorter than the previous two, which i don't really have a problem with. it mostly feels like an extended epilogue, which is fun and different for a whole game to be about, ha. (also, all the stuff with kevin and ries is proving to be good inspiration for one of my current projects.)

speaking of trails, i have finished the fanlisting for estelle bright. there's a pretty thorough introduction for those unfamiliar with the game and character. i really can't wait for the remake of the first game, especially now that we're in september and it's only a few short weeks away. (all the more reason to finish 3rd sooner than later.)

in ff14 news, i had to leave one of my raid groups because the times were just not working out for me; i have made my peace with it but am sad i won't be able to continue with that particular group. my ex farm group is still going well, though; we're about 40% through the grind for the newest extreme. one pair of wings dropped this week and the lucky winner was... me?! i still can't believe it.

writing has been continuing, but has been up and down. still working at it, though.

i think that's it for this week!

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Mark Smith ([staff profile] mark) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2025-08-31 07:37 pm

Code deploy happening shortly

Per the [site community profile] dw_news post regarding the MS/TN blocks, we are doing a small code push shortly in order to get the code live. As per usual, please let us know if you see anything wonky.

There is some code cleanup we've been doing that is going out with this push but I don't think there is any new/reworked functionality, so it should be pretty invisible if all goes well.

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Denise ([staff profile] denise) wrote in [site community profile] dw_news2025-08-31 12:28 pm

Mississippi site block, plus a small restriction on Tennessee new accounts

A reminder to everyone that starting tomorrow, we are being forced to block access to any IP address that geolocates to the state of Mississippi for legal reasons while we and Netchoice continue fighting the law in court. People whose IP addresses geolocate to Mississippi will only be able to access a page that explains the issue and lets them know that we'll be back to offer them service as soon as the legal risk to us is less existential.

The block page will include the apology but I'll repeat it here: we don't do geolocation ourselves, so we're limited to the geolocation ability of our network provider. Our anti-spam geolocation blocks have shown us that their geolocation database has a number of mistakes in it. If one of your friends who doesn't live in Mississippi gets the block message, there is nothing we can do on our end to adjust the block, because we don't control it. The only way to fix a mistaken block is to change your IP address to one that doesn't register as being in Mississippi, either by disconnecting your internet connection and reconnecting it (if you don't have a static IP address) or using a VPN.

In related news, the judge in our challenge to Tennessee's social media age verification, parental consent, and parental surveillance law (which we are also part of the fight against!) ruled last month that we had not met the threshold for a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing the law while the court case proceeds.

The Tennesee law is less onerous than the Mississippi law and the fines for violating it are slightly less ruinous (slightly), but it's still a risk to us. While the fight goes on, we've decided to prevent any new account signups from anyone under 18 in Tennessee to protect ourselves against risk. We do not need to block access from the whole state: this only applies to new account creation.

Because we don't do any geolocation on our users and our network provider's geolocation services only apply to blocking access to the site entirely, the way we're implementing this is a new mandatory question on the account creation form asking if you live in Tennessee. If you do, you'll be unable to register an account if you're under 18, not just the under 13 restriction mandated by COPPA. Like the restrictions on the state of Mississippi, we absolutely hate having to do this, we're sorry, and we hope we'll be able to undo it as soon as possible.

Finally, I'd like to thank every one of you who's commented with a message of support for this fight or who's bought paid time to help keep us running. The fact we're entirely user-supported and you all genuinely understand why this fight is so important for everyone is a huge part of why we can continue to do this work. I've also sent a lot of your comments to the lawyers who are fighting the actual battles in court, and they find your wholehearted support just as encouraging and motivating as I do. Thank you all once again for being the best users any social media site could ever hope for. You make me proud and even more determined to yell at state attorneys general on your behalf.