Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26287306-20181209224223

Knok Knok's forum post influenced me into writing this.

About my Activity
It's been way too long since I have been active on wikia, and I am really not going to be active for a while now, although I have been and will check on the community wiki for technical updates once in a while, like I did today and logged in to see some new messages for me, and Knok Knok's post. I was really hoping that I would be active again during the summer but I accidentally broke my computer again and it wasn't weeks after I fixed it, and it really upsets me looking back. I came to the MH wikia in early 2016 "overhauling" articles, and actively editing them for the next year and a half here. Late 2016 was when I began to learn CSS to skin infoboxes, but by late 2017, I had skinned almost the entire site, and in late 2017, to the point where I would come home, edit CSS for several hours, and then go to sleep, that's how addicted I was to it. I began to deviate from wikia entirely starting in early 2018 when I began doing misc activites in my free time but through the year had issues doing homework. I had stopped really editing articles on the wiki after April 2017 because I was really overwhlemed by this research paper I had to do, and I had felt bad because I was so behind on the changes being made to MH, after the Rez update, MH was basically a very different world. Now I don't feel like coming back to wikia because I need to figure out my plans for the future, how I'm going to spend the rest of high school (i'm a junior now but I realize I should've started thinking about it a long time ago) and beyond. I am thinking if I could give at least a little bit of time to editing on wikia during winter break though.

When I began skinning the entire website, I knew I was taking it too far. Earlier this year, I realized that design doesn't need to be over the top for it to be good, and that you could spend your time more wisely than making design over the top, the important thing is that it works well. I knew that there was some stuff broken but I thought it was ok even if the bugs were there, and that I would soon fix them, but look at how much time has passed. Wikis is slowly updating their website design (within the past two months - I noticed they updated the category page but there are many more changes to come in the future). I have know for a long time that the CSS doesn't work well on slower designs, but I REALLY didn't want to let go of the CSS, and I thought that if the CSS overwhelms your computer, ROBLOX (especially Miner's Haven since its the game in question) would too. I realize now that I took it to the point where I sacrificed function for form (making the site load slow, bugs here and there). When you overlook some areas where the design isn't that good on wikia, the rest of the website, including the main parts, are perfectly fine. I have removed almost all of the the CSS from this wiki that I contributed, the only real downside I can think of from the top of my head is the infobox themees, but they are a little unpolished at the least. The CSS files shouldn't be on an external domain if I, the only person who maintained them, is not going to be active.

=== If anyone wants to learn CSS: w3schools.com is a great resource, and where I got almost all of my knowledge on CSS from. CSS is not that hard to learn, it's mostly about knowing many of the different style properties. It may be a lot to take in, but if you want to learn CSS, take it one or a few steps at a time. Read each article from top to bottom and go to the next with the sidebar, then you should be set to make great CSS. ====

I have created copies of my CSS files if anyone wants to take a look at them, and if mods or admins wants to published edited versions of them. Here they are:
 * The Main chunk of CSS
 * Font CSS
 * Infobox CSS

This is the CSS put on top of a CSS file to import my CSS and have color variables set. @import url(//twem.wikia.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Wikia.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css); /* REPLACE "twem.wikia.com" with wiki domain and "MediaWiki:Wikia.css" with the page name and directory) if you use import */
 * root {

--600: #00897B; --600Color: #FFF; --700: #00796B; --700Color: #FFF; --800: #00695C; --800Color: #FFF; --900: #004D40; --900Color: #FFF; /* accent colors */ --A100: #A7FFEB; --A100Color: #000; --A200: #64FFDA; --A200Color: #000; --A400: #1DE9B6; --A400Color: #000; --A700: #00BFA5; --A700Color: #000; }

Miner's Haven has been an amazing game but it has gotten too old now and doesn't appeal as well to the ROBLOX community anymore (social games do a much better job, and simulators seem to be very simple from what I have seen). Time itself can make a game less popular, for me it's hard to tell why, but I think if Berezaa wants to work on a game like Miner's Haven, he should make a sequel on it where he introduces new game mechanics, and try to make it innovative like Miner's Haven was in the world of ROBLOX Tycoons. About Azure Mines, Berezaa didn't do enough with the game (I haven't seen the changes made in 2018 though) or did so too late. To me, it's basically a Simulator, although I hate smulators, I think I liked Azrue Mines because it was before the simulator boom, so the repetition wasn't as apparent, and it was because of the style, the game was made by berezaa, and upgrading the base stations gave me a great sense of accomplishment.


 * I am definately going to eventually post Google Photos Albums of my wikia photos and other things, and make a Google Drive folder of my Vesteria Assets (bascially notes and screenshots that you can get information out of). I will make a forum post on it when and if I eventually do so.

Well, It has been a great few years (I joined Wikia in October 2015). I hope that either the users on this wiki do their best to make the wikia thrive the best it can, or contirbute to other wikis or projects with thriving communities. If you really want to get in touch with me, you can message on ROBLOX, my username is Sneakyboom24 (you will have to follow me first to message me). Peace. 