Help Puerto Rico
As many of you may know, Puerto Rico and several nearby islands have been devastated by Hurricane Maria. Many of them were already suffering damage from the previous Irma.
- As of today, the entire island's power grid is offline.
- While some places have generators, most do not have sufficient ones.
- Flooding has rendered several towns unacceunssable.
- It is estimated that they will not be able to get power to hospitals for several weeks.
Puerto Rico has limited supplies of food, sanitary water, medical products, sanitary products, and batteries. While the island did have some ability to develop these things; between flooding, massive wind damage, and loss of power; Puerto Rico's stocks have been mostly lost along with their manufacturing capabilitie…
Deadcoder's Reviews: Marabounta
I have returned. Some of you have probably thought that I have abandoned this blog. Well, I haven't. I just have actual stuff to do. I work on this wiki, I'm employed full time, and I maintain a McMansion that we live in because my mom designed the house with no concept of maintainability. To celebrate the absurdity that is real life, let's celebrate the absurdity that is Marabounta. This will be rated on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being Betty White's sex tape, and 10 being Diego Mestanza's. I'm pretty sure Diego's doesn't, because I would have found it by now if it did.
This has Bruno Regeste. That means it will look pretty but have shitty actual plot. Oh wait, Sophie Decroisette is here! That means the writing will actually be good!
We sta…
Changing chat platforms
As most of you are aware, our chat system has its problems. Our chat system is prone to network problems, is known to fail when used with Chrome Data Saver, has issues on mobile devices, has so many missing features, we've had to deploy a bunch of custom features, has no logging, and has questionable security.
However, we've turned a blind eye on these matters. But now, new details has emerged. Many wikis have been using Discord as their chat system rather than Wikia's native chat system. This system meets our requirements. Additionally, there are suspicions that Wikia might stop officially supporting Chat, and leave it as an unsupported-but-not-removed feature, like Special:TagsReport.
With that in mind, I am proposing that this wiki, the E…
Deadcoder's Reviews: Lyoko Minus One
I'm back and I'm fabulous! Some of you may wonder where I've been over the last 6 months. I've been going to college full time and working a full time job and occasionally writing stuff on Fandom. I'm glad to finally have time for another review, so let's kill the joy with Lyoko Minus One!
Yay! This one has Laurent Turner! That means the writing won't suck! We start with Ulrich waking up to an Alarm Clock, with Odd missing, actually up in the morning. Minus one point for OOC! Ulrich then goes to Jeremie's room, seeing him having fallen asleep at the computer. He wakes up Jeremie by shipping Odlita, which works.
My thoughts on this: Hee hee, implied incest "they're allegedly cousins". 1 point to Laurent Turner for finding even more things for…
The Changing State Of Twitter Feeds
As many of you may know, Twitter recently rolled out a new system for embedded timelines: https://blog.twitter.com/2016/embedding-twitter-timelines-just-got-a-lot-easier. This is complicated by the fact that this wiki uses a custom Twitter feed system, rather than the one provided by Wikia. This is because the version Wikia provides violated some of our security policies, and Wikia refused to fix issues that were reported.
The good news is this: Twitter's old embedded feed system will still work. The bad news is that we don't know how long it will continue to work. With that in mind, I have come up with a plan to handle this issue. In the next few months, we will be rolling out a new system for Twitter Feeds, updating all feeds, and retirin…