Hello and welcome to what I call “the Hub”. If you're new here, I will do a rundown of how this works and what to expect. For the people who aren't new here, you can go ahead and skip straight to either making an account or just roaming around and reading some of the (frankly random) pages on this wiki.
This is the home page, where the only thing on here is this greeting and some other panels. If you're accustomed to wikis at all, this should make sense to you already. Hopefully it does as I won't be explaining any of the panels.
This is a type of “hub” where, hopefully, in the future I, or anybody else I trust, will take a look at all kinds of things, and (hopefully) make some helpful guides or something about them. This can range from things like my thoughts about games, software comparisons, to even things like hardware comparisons or rants. As I am definitely not a expert in any field, take some of my explanations with a grain of salt. Should something be factually wrong, there's a comment section where you can explain where I was wrong. Any examination should be seen as essentially a “curious end-user” who knows enough about certain things to learn how to fix them in case they break, and with enough time on my hands to thoroughly look into something.
The original wiki came to mind after trying to guide someone through GitHub, only to see them be confused the entire time. This wiki, however, came to be because I got tired of handwriting entire pages, CSS groups, ids, and all.
For the older visitors, sorry. There's no cool dark mode on this wiki, nor is there (seemingly) a light mode.
For the new visitors who have no idea what I'm talking about, on the original wiki I had a sort of dark mode palette by default. Not white text on black background, but like a very dark blue; #23272a background and #f5f5dc text if you're curious. This was entirely meant to be easy on the eyes in pretty much every environment, but being that I can't go manually editing every page's CSS, that simply can't happen. I also had a light mode toggle in the corner, but again, I cannot do that.
Why do dark mode in the first place? Why have a light mode toggle?
Simple. On April 1, 2019, Discord completely did away with Light Mode for a day. This caused people with sight issues and other problems essentially not able to use Discord for an entire day. I personally know people with these problems, so I wanted to include a comfort mode for those people.
In case you haven't noticed from any of the previous sentences, I like to write pretty much exactly how I talk.
I feel like this makes reading the text a lot easier, as it sounds more “fluid”, at least to me. As long as you read it as if I'm talking, certain sentences might make more sense. I'm not a big fan of the “command” talk when it's unnecessary.
There's honestly nothing really interesting to the images. When I resize the images it's only in percentages, so they're probably going to be different sizes every time.
Sometimes I will use an image that I do not own. All credits for said images go to the respective owner/s.
Unfortunately there's no good way I can seem to format them on this wiki, so certain aspects don't look the best, or even really similar to the original wiki. I tried my best to adapt them properly, but if there's any readability issues, please tell me. They (hilariously) take longer to write than the normal pages, and so I miss some formatting or grammar errors.
Occasionally when you're searching through the wiki there will be pages on the sidebar that, when clicked on, will take you to a page that says that “This page is not available”. This simply means that the page is not published yet; either I forgot to publish it or I'm currently making that page. I really don't want to upload unfinished pages, especially since they all go through a sort of “proofreading” before uploading. If you really want to, you can make an account and I can give you a role that lets you see unfinished pages. I usually won't take down a page while I'm editing it unless I'm doing a major reconstruction or something comes up in the middle of me working on it.
In the top right there's an account button. As of right now (10/26/2024) there is essentially no way to make an account without using Discord. I fully intend to spend the least possible amount of money on running this server, and that includes authentication services. Discord isn't perfect, as some people know from the Matrix Synapse days, but it really is the only way to make an account without me paying for any services or running unnecessary services on my own. Other options were local authentication, but email addresses are pretty much only good when paid, and literally any public authentication service (Google, Auth2, OAuth, etc.), but they're pretty much all paid, or a very heavy service for what we're using it for. DO NOT use the local sign up option, it will not work.
Your options right now are: