January 2012

Why was my account locked?

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 11:25

Over the last few weeks, a few high-profile accounts on Identi.ca, like @methoddan and @jezra, were inexplicably locked out of the system. I'm currently analyzing the possible causes, but I wanted to give a general idea of what's going on.

Here are my current suspected causes:

freelish.us is back online!

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 14:13

Our upgrade to StatusNet 1.0.0 in September 2011 had some unfortunate side-effects. Some of the public services we ran were taken off-line after the upgrade... and never returned.

One of the most beloved, freelish.us, the Open Source, Open Content bookmark-sharing service, has been requested (emphatically) by many users. Most of the functionality has been subsumed by the rest of StatusNet, but we wanted to have it back up anyway. As of this past weekend, the server is back on-line.

Identi.ca blackout 18 Jan 2012 8AM-8PM EST to protest SOPA/PIPA

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 16:08

Identi.ca will join Reddit, the Cheezburger Network, and dozens of other web sites in protest of the Stop Online Privacy Act proposed in the US Congress and its corresponding Senate bill, Protect IP.

PubSubHubbub W3C Community group

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Wed, 01/11/2012 - 12:50

There is a new proposed community group for PubSubHubbub at the W3C.