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Hiveswap: Act 2 has had its official launch trailer released and its Steam page updated, and is set to release in November.

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)(IC: Five glubbin SW-E-EPS a this )(omestuck shit )(IC: I’m ITC)(IN to go outside gurl

CALAMITY: you know i cannot allow that, peixes. CALAMITY: the virus is simply too much of a risk.

Happy 4/13 2x20!!!!!!!!!!! Remember - don’t go on long intergalactic trips with large groups of associates, like the trolls. Practice responsible and thorough social distancing, like the cherubs.

But please also wash your hands. I’m frankly not sure if Calamity or any of her children do at all.

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In case anybody missed it, here’s a comprehensive snapshot of everything we changed for April Fool’s this year on the wiki and its discord server

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Beyond Canon, by Homestuck

19 track album

Dirk: You just made a monster.

Happy 11th anniversary, Homestuck! Today’s big news is a brand new album by the music team: Beyond Canon. Enjoy the tunes while we all chill out through this storm (is it raining where you are?)

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This blog's still alive?

The rumor come out

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Have you thought of migrating the wiki outside fandoom? Honestly they seem to be more trouble than they worth it

It’s a noble idea, and I appreciate the sympathy for our roadblocks with Fandom, but talking about it internally with the other staff today there’s a number of reasons that it would ultimately backfire on us.

The first thing TS checked was a page that apparently used to be for exporting a whole wiki, but now apparently can only export individual pages. Considering our volume of content that would. Take some time.

The next question would be then where we import those exported pages to. The only other major wiki system I could think of is gamepedia - aside from the fact that we don’t primarily document videogames, gamepedia has an upcoming merger with fandom anyway. Which is further proof of the existing broad observation that Fandom certainly seems to have a monopoly on pop culture wikis.

If we were to make our own mediawiki, the server would necessitate money to host and ability to maintain that none of us really have. Bulbapedia may have the kind of resources to pull that off, but we do not. If we did, Fandom would also actively suppress any announcements we made on their site about migrating. We could post it on the tumblr and discord here, sure, but not every user checks these places. This also leads to a tanked Search Engine Optimization, I think, possibly making our new wiki harder to find.

All of that aside, even if we smoothed all that over and made the move, all existing user accounts would be useless - everyone including probably staff would likely have to make new accounts just to edit the wiki at all, and the old user links on the page history and talk pages would be a mess.

Fandom has its problems, as does YouTube for example. But when you’ve hosted something in the same place for 10 years and don’t have the best resources to move, it’s easier to leave it where it is and hope/ask for improvements.

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But before we get to that. In recent weeks some users, including myself, were unable to see the wiki at all on mobile view as a side effect of the new css work we’ve been implementing to improve the wiki. That issue should now be fixed, thanks to  KockaAdmiralac.

We’re aware that the mobile presentation of the wiki has been, quite frankly, a garbage heap for years. Particularly with the formatting of character infoboxes. Honestly, we’re sincerely sorry for the lack of a solution far earlier. But with Ylimegirl charging full speed ahead with portable infoboxes and a broader infobox overhaul, we’re well on our way to far more practical user accessibility.

In the meantime, KockaAdmiralac has also fixed a huge issue with mobile infobox display, and I’m thrilled to announce that the horrendous gallery of chatlink images in the pesterlogs is now a relic of the past.

We hope this makes the wiki a more pleasant experience for everyone who wishes to use it!

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Ten years ago, a young man stood in his bedroom. It was his thirteenth birthday. He had a feeling it was going to be a long one. Desolation played its note. The conductor’s baton was raised. Paradox clones flew, a cascade of events took place, and the young man’s long day came to an end. He escaped through broken glass. Years passed, and he and his friends, those gods and tricksters, many dead in the void, did collide with the man in the cairo overcoat. The young man was sixteen. The game, over.