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That's wild. Just got series of notifications from Bandcamp to tell me about the release of SIX different #homestuck albums. All from different performers.

Presumably because I got a couple of releases years and years ago, back when Homestuck was a hot property. Been a while since I thought much about it.

The ones I got were good albums though.

Okay I may have accidentally inhaled Act 1 of Homestuck. I graduated from school the year it started and I probably missed it by just a couple days, because there were people in my year who 100% followed it so I would have heard about it, but it came out 10 days after my last day of school.
Anyways. Going to let myself get sucked in now.
#Homestuck

Had already spent like half an hour trying to figure out how to get the Homestuck collection as it's apparently down when I figured out it's a customized browser and will probably have problems on Linux... except there's an AUR package of course! Except it doesn't work! Guess this is an appropriate way to access a nerdy web comic. At least my browser decides to play a bit of the soundtrack every other minute so now I know I need it. Looking at this Electron package now...
#Homestuck

Today, I am announcing plans for the biggest change to Pandora's Tale Wiki since its founding: I am going to port the wiki away from MediaWiki and convert it to a git repository of text files. This conversion process may not be easy, but it is necessary. If we continue down the current path, I am going to burn out and will not be able to continue maintaining the wiki. I have described the reasons for the change in the article for Project: Texts About Pandora
https://pandorastale.wiki/wiki/Pandora%27s_Tale_Wiki:Texts_About_Pandora#Hosting_availability

(Yes, the name of the article is a pun on the pages "Texts from Pandora" and "Texts from Pandora 2".)
https://comicsbyxan.com/comic/texts-from-pandora/
https://comicsbyxan.com/comic/texts-from-pandora-2/

There are still some things I need to determine.

1) First and most significantly, I have to figure out how to convert a MediaWiki instance into a git repository. I've found several scripts which claim to do it, but they all seem to have significant drawbacks in addition to being unmaintained. I would
greatly appreciate advice from computer creatures in this regard.

2) Then I have to decide on the text format: Plaintext, gemtext, or markdown? There are ups and downs to each of them, though I'm not as worried since I believe it might be possible to convert between them later.

3) Finally I have to decide on the hosting software and platform if I want anyone else to be able to read it. Gitlab, Forgejo, sourcehut, or something else?

Once I answer these questions, I am going to move Pandora's Tale Wiki to a git repository, and then I will ask Miraheze to shut down their copy of the wiki. I don't know how long this process will take, but I believe it's the only way I can continue the wiki.


#PandorasTale #PandorasTaleWiki #ComicsByXan #Webcomics #Homestuck #MSPaintAdventures #Miraheze #Wiki #Wikis #WebcomicWiki #MediaWiki #Git #PlainText #GemText #GeminiProtocol #Markdown #MD #SourceHut #srht #Forgejo #Gitlab

Pandora's Tale Wiki · Pandora's Tale Wiki:Texts About Pandora - Pandora's Tale WikiWhen I created Pandora's Tale Wiki in September 2022, I initially chose Fandom as a hosting platform. I chose Fandom based on expectations I had for how the wiki...