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We've just done a quick code push to get some fixes live (other changes in this push are here!), so if you spot anything awry, give us a holler. This push also should get Google indexing back (for those who have chosen to make their journals indexable) after the next crawl! 🤞 (We had to block an incredibly large range of hosted IPs in order to tackle our persistent and ongoing spam and flooding problem and there was a little too much splash damage.)

If you are not using a VPN and you regularly get the captcha from our hosting provider (the graphical one instead of the DW-native text one), please email support@dreamwidth.org with your IP address and we can see if we can add you to the bypass list after you've run a network and virus scan to make sure the reason our hosting provider is blocking you isn't because your network has a compromised machine on it. I am incredibly sorry that we won't be able to add any VPN IP addresses that are on the "suspicious activity and so receive a captcha" list to the exceptions list: we are very well aware of the security and privacy reasons to use a VPN service for internet browsing, and we really wish we didn't have to put those barriers in the way of some of the VPN services people use to access the site, but the overwhelming majority of our abusive traffic comes from free VPN services. It's been getting sharply worse lately, and we've needed to take some radical steps to curtail it. I apologize profusely to those of you who are using those services legitimately for the inconvenience you've been experiencing.