Neil banging out the tunes coincides with the homestuck?? 
#Homestuck is now trending across Mastodon
#llmb93 is now trending across Mastodon
I'm going to play some Homestuck game thingy with the Live Laugh Stuck crew.
Today, April 13, 2009, a young man stands in his bedroom on his birthday (Homestuck, 2009)
Happy Naming Day to all the 13-year-old aspiring God-tiers out there!
It's already been 14 years since I, by pure chance, have stumbled upon a webcomic that made me what I am today. That showed me how to get throuh weird, precarious and tough times and beat impossible odds, even if you have to bend the rules of reality a little. That showed me that it's not necessarily the best version of you that survives in the end, but being a mess is not antithetical to being a hero. That even a catastrophic failure might not be the end if there's someone out there looking out for you - even if literally worlds apart. That everyone is important in the grand machinery of Creation, however small they may feel. That accepting who you are is the only way you can make a meaningful impact. That convinced me that friendship and comradery can create universes. That let me meet many of my uniquely insane life partners, whom I love, and one of which is now sleeping quietly beside me, as I wrestle with my perpetual strange-place insomnia.
Thank you, #Homestuck, and happy #413
I'm on page 7175 and I still don't really get it lmao. #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
Today, Pandora's Tale Wiki reaches an important milestone. If the wiki were a software project, then version 0.0.1 would have been in September 2022 (the wikis founding), version 1.0 would have been in August 2023, and version 2.0 would be released today.
What's so big about today's update? It requires some explanation that doesn't fit in this instance's character limit, so please see the blog post.
https://pandorastale.wiki/wiki/User_blog:183231bcb/A_New_Milestone_for_Pandora%27s_Tale_Wiki
#PandorasTale #PandorasTaleWiki #ComicsByXan #Webcomics #Homestuck #MSPaintAdventures #Miraheze #Wiki #Wikis #WebcomicWiki
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