Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26287306-20180317134424

(I thought it was time to stop adding music to my forum posts, now I think its awkward).

Side Notes
It's been a while since I had posted a forum post, I had actually planned on releasing forum posts on the BLOXYs and the MH update where certain items could no longer be obtained from the shop and instead from crates but now both of them seem out of date. In late January and early February, I had began working on a skin for this wiki based off the current design in MH, but on February 5th, I had began playing Flood Escape 2 a lot after Pro servers had dropped, making me addicted to the game, last week I hit lvl 30 to realize that there's almost no difference in pro servers, oh well.

Also, I had began working on the Hexaria wiki a while ago and its great to see the popularity with the game in less than two weeks after the game's drop. You can play hexaria here and contribute to the Hexaria wiki at hexaria.wikia.com.

Finally, the Miner's Haven st. Patrick's day event begins today at 10am PST and 1pm EST so make sure to check that out. The CSS on the MH wiki is now fixed, if you wish to learn more about what happened, especially what specifically happened and a bit of technical stuff, continue reading.

Many users and visitors noticed that the CSS for this wiki has been broken for the past several days. This was due to an update wikia released last week that involved their FandomBot updating CSS across the entire fandom network. The bot removed http prefixes to URLs, especially those that are CSS imports. The purpose of this was to make wikia a bit more secure by getting https pages instead of http wherever possible. While HTML is used to make web pages themselves, http is a protocol used between computers and servers when browsing the web. https is a newer protocol, the different between http and https is that http is not encrypted which can lead to security compromises while https is encrypted granting more security when surfing the web.

Security is becoming increasingly important in a world where hackers wish to breach devices and perform malicious activities, in fact, it has been reported that Google will release an update to Chrome this summer, Chrome 68 (the latest version of chrome currently is 65) where pages without http will be labeled "Not Secure" directly on the URL bar, right now with major browsers, you can click an I icon next to the URL to see security details about the website. What gets on my nerves with the wikia update is that wikia does not use HTTPS and that's obvious when browsers like Chrome and Firefox report that its not secure.

Due to some lack of activity on the wikia, I did not know about the CSS issue until this week when I was messaged. Things I had tried to fix the CSS was copy and pasting my CSS onto Notepad and using find a replace to change the URLs and publish the change, then refresh my browser cache to see if the CSS worked. Before that, I had tried restorying my CSS to before FandomBot changed it, but I would keep pressing CTRL + F5 (to refresh cache) over and over again but would not see any changes. After trying for an hour, I felt stuck, I then reached out for help from wikia staff (in the form of a reply to an email I sent complaining about the change).

Wikia staff claim that FandomBot should not have broke my CSS, and yesterday, the CSS here was fixed, I looked at what wikia staff had done and what the CSS looked like when FandomBot changed it, the key difference I found was the wiki domain name for both. The MH wiki gets an import of CSS from my test wiki, and I had changed the domain name a few times, despite this, import links I left behind with old domain names worked. When I had tried to fix the CSS, I noticed that when i had changed the domain name in the URL but kept the rest of the URL the same, I saw two different files. This leads me to the conclusion that having an out of date wiki domain name in the CSS import link could lead to issues with importing CSS. Soon, I will go to all of the wikis I can find and or remember that had my CSS on it and update the import link. I realize that I had a habit of taking up all of the URL names as possible. Welp, see ya in the next forum post or whatever. 