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Bad news about the highlights function
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What a goddamn Christmas gift. At least let's hope the replacement will work well enough.
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What a goddamn Christmas gift. At least let's hope the replacement will work well enough.
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I don't know why, but i feel people here is too overreacted with this shit.
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I don't think this is just about this change specifically.
I believe the reason everyone is so unhappy is because FANDOM has made bad decisions like this repeatedly and have shown no signs of stopping yet.
I believe the reason everyone is so unhappy is because FANDOM has made bad decisions like this repeatedly and have shown no signs of stopping yet.
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It's not as much as this specific action causing all the outrage as further showings of FANDOM's slow degeneration.
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People just need to adapting, why it so hard?
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@Vel You know someone complaining about something doesn't mean they have outright refused to adapt to it right?
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People are just sick of trying to adapt to a website that's constantly downgrading itself over and over.
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We have "adapted" to many of their unneeded changes in the past, but we're getting tired of it. A lot of people are getting tired of it, which is why so many people are jumping ship to Miraheze, ShoutWiki and independent ventures. Many people consider Wikia to be a liability at this point, which is not good for anyone.Veloxt1r0kore said:
Like Saikou said. It's not just this change, it's the slow, but very noticeable degeneration. There's even an possibility that they're going to remove the MediaWiki software the entire website is built on for some lackluster alternative.
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Fine fine, i'm just sick seeing people here are overreacting.
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um....this is just...dumb...like...really...yare yare daze
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get woke get broke
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I don't see people overreacting so much as getting frustrated for a more then justifiable reason
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Getting frustrated is really bad, you know? Like it you cant take it with clean mind, etc.
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Getting frustrated is a human reaction and in some cases it insights action
Saying that people getting frustrated is an overreaction is overreacting on its own.
Saying that people getting frustrated is an overreaction is overreacting on its own.
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People just need not getting frustrated so easily by this problem, we get more worse than this before, is it?
This is not like end of world or else, people just need to calm down with this and thinking it with fresh mind.
This is not like end of world or else, people just need to calm down with this and thinking it with fresh mind.
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FANDOM continuously making the site worse without any reason isn't "Easy" it's a geniuenely moronic idea.
It's not something "so easy" to not get frustrated over.
No one is saying it's the end of the world, let them vent.
Most importantly just sitting their and acting like nothing wrong is going on isn't exactly a good idea either
It's not something "so easy" to not get frustrated over.
No one is saying it's the end of the world, let them vent.
Most importantly just sitting their and acting like nothing wrong is going on isn't exactly a good idea either
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Fair enough i guess, well gonna unfollow this thread since if i continuing here i afraid something bad happen.
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Already tried
Like
A dozen times
Like
A dozen times
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I am disappointed, but not hopeless.
We have faced far worst things in this wiki's past and pulled through in spite of it. If FANDOM itself is going to be our final adversary, then I'm sure we'll endure it as well and survive this.
We have faced far worst things in this wiki's past and pulled through in spite of it. If FANDOM itself is going to be our final adversary, then I'm sure we'll endure it as well and survive this.
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^ That's honestly a very cringey comment
I'm seriously reconsidering my disagreement with the suggestion of moving away from FANDOM/WIKIA. This site keeps going backwards by the year.
I'm seriously reconsidering my disagreement with the suggestion of moving away from FANDOM/WIKIA. This site keeps going backwards by the year.
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You had a disagreement?
I thought that was borderline unanimous
I thought that was borderline unanimous
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I agreed, then disagreed because it wasn't realistic at all at the time.
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Oof. We have to adapt to new changes, huh. Little flexibility is given at the cost of the fancy stuff.
@Kepekley23 Time itself will show us what to do. As long as the forums work well we can adapt to anything FANDOM offers.
If community.wikia.com comes with something that can seamlessly replace forums, we can use their method.
@Kepekley23 Time itself will show us what to do. As long as the forums work well we can adapt to anything FANDOM offers.
If community.wikia.com comes with something that can seamlessly replace forums, we can use their method.
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@AKM They already have. We have just managed to survive for longer.
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There's some wikis who kept forums after being transffered to Fandom.
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@Matt Ah so we are not alone ovo
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If the announcements function will get enough usual features (not just "highlightning" one thread/blog), then it would be fine. For example, we could make a list of important current stuff and divide it by sections (content revisions, staff discussions, productive members' retirements, informative blogs, etc.).
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Playing around with this feature in my personal wiki, just trying to figure out what our options are.
I think Ant's suggestion is the best right now.
Create a intermediate thread which links all the highlight needing threads and may I suggest you also mention the dates when those threads were created adjacent to the links?
I think Ant's suggestion is the best right now.
Create a intermediate thread which links all the highlight needing threads and may I suggest you also mention the dates when those threads were created adjacent to the links?
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Honestly...if the "only one announcement at a time" rule wasn't there, this wouldn't even be that bad of an replacement.
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What are the reasons why transferring away from Wikia would be unrealistic? I've heard there are wiki sites with server crashes and such, and there might be some which are unrealistic to use just because their name is weird to write (Nothing feels better than being able to spell the entire url of a page of this wikia completely from memory), but are decent candidates that hard to find? What other cons exist?
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You know...maybe we should focus this thread on handling this new situation and move the leaving FANDOM talk to elsewhere. What does everyone else think?
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Sure, sure, I just thought it was something important to talk about since, well, it's an important plan B-reak free if our plan A-dapt fails.
The "adapt" plan is basically a thread in News and Announcements Board, which is constantly an Announcement and locked 99% of the time, listing the names and links to "highlighted" threads on OP (while open and relevant) and on the comments as they become highlighted and as a way to bump them, am I right? Anything else, or a better plan? Such as maybe a script that could be put somewhere to create highlighting while we don't really have it, stuff like that.
The "adapt" plan is basically a thread in News and Announcements Board, which is constantly an Announcement and locked 99% of the time, listing the names and links to "highlighted" threads on OP (while open and relevant) and on the comments as they become highlighted and as a way to bump them, am I right? Anything else, or a better plan? Such as maybe a script that could be put somewhere to create highlighting while we don't really have it, stuff like that.
