talkhaus sites - new wiki and search engine!

[rena]

woah this is super cool
I've needed a way to present the game I'm working on

can I get one? like... with this url? -> fishingseasontraversal.talkhaus.com

sure thing!

i'm still updating my site too and working on something cool and new

Thank you!
So, how do I get the link to show up in my posts' sidebar like everyone else?

I just do it manually and I haven't gotten around to it yet :P if you update the page it'll show up on the index automatically next time it updates thuogh

[Ivy]

put me in with domain ivy n_n

[agargara]

hello welcome to my vegetable oil emporium
https://agargara.talkhaus.com/

[Lejes]

More in-depth reviews from Hat Kid than I was expecting.

[KobaBeach]

trying to install some stuff so i can put my spreadsheets on talkhaus and also visible online because google docs deletes that shit if you're inactive now, mostly to work with a javascript package on npm, handsontable. i would have used another open source one i found first on git, but i can't find a read only option for that one.

[rena]

the sites index is looking goood i'm enjoying looking through it regularly

i'm still updating my site but it's mostly in existing categories so i need to add some sort of index page with recent posts/updates

[HatKid]

More in-depth reviews from Hat Kid than I was expecting.

I've amazed even myself with how much I've typed for a few of those reviews.

[rena]

i can't sleep so i added a recent posts thing to my homepage since the new stuff is mostly just hidden in existing categories

btw the source code for my site is here https://github.com/catchouli/rena.talkhaus.com (it uses the static site generator jekyll so i dont have to manually maintain all the html)

there's also https://github.com/catchouli/index.talkhaus.com for the site index, technically people could probably add new features if they wanted and i'd probably accept a pull request if it was sensible

[Blivsey]

ive figured out what i want to do with this, go ahead and set me up rena. hope yall like video games being reviewed at random

[rena]

ive figured out what i want to do with this, go ahead and set me up rena. hope yall like video games being reviewed at random

yess!

I've got something special in the works for my next major project but it's going to take a bit to finish

[Blivsey]

ive figured out what i want to do with this, go ahead and set me up rena. hope yall like video games being reviewed at random

yess!

I've got something special in the works for my next major project but it's going to take a bit to finish

hella!
ill get to work later today, or possibly tomorrow, depending on where my energy goes

[PSI Ninja]

TalkhausCities is growing larger every day.

I added two new things to my website over the weekend. The first is a raocow quotes page. If anyone has any good raocow quotes, PM me and I'll add it to the list and give you credit!

The second is a pseudo-webring. It's not a real webring because the "previous" and "next" links are actually randomized. Originally I wanted to write a script that scrapes the site index for all the information, but I don't think that's secure. So I erred on the side of caution and hard-coded all of the subdomains. I made this thingy as a way to derust from not using JavaScript in a while. Maybe one day I'll work my way up to making browser games like some of you.

[KobaBeach]

Mirrored my RPG list on my site, will do the same for my games beat archive (only my games sorry). Impetus was Google announcing they'd take down everything in your Google Photos or Google Docs or Google Drive if you don't log in in one of them for over 2 months. Not surprised, corporations hate consumers, but still disappointed.

[rena]

still working on my big project (probably for weeks or months still unless i get a big burst of productivity) but i'm still updating my site and adding movie reviews whenever I watch new movies (which is a lot)

i've been doing some programming lately too for once so i might add some programming tutorials too, the web doesnt have enough tiny sites with progarmming tutorials anymore

[rena]

is there appetite for a talkhaus wiki? I know @RixiTheChao wanted one for ASMT stuff so maybe it could just be that too if there's no point to having a talkhaus one at this point. It all depends on there being people to maintain it tbh

I have a backup of the old wiki but it's very out of date at this point so I wouldn't bother restoring it, I could put it up read-only if anyone wants to copy relevant information out of it.

[ano0maly]

I remember the old talkhaus wiki pages invaded by spambots a few years ago when it was last online

[rena]

I remember the old talkhaus wiki pages invaded by spambots a few years ago when it was last online

yeah that's why I disabled it (other than noone maintaining it for a long time) but today we don't even have open registration so it's probably not an issue anymore

[Rixithechao]

Yeah, we've been reworking the old ASMBXT dev wiki to an encyclopedic wiki for the series. It's still pretty incomplete, but I keep coming back to update it every once in a while.
https://asmbxt.fandom.com/wiki/Demo
https://asmbxt.fandom.com/wiki/Cat_Planet_Cat
https://asmbxt.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Character

I don't see myself contributing to a revived talkhaus wiki but I'm still down for it being brought back even if only for the sake of archiving any documented community history that survived the spambots. Preferably it could be given its own subdomain and we could also set up a separate ASMT wiki that I could then port the character pages and stuff over to, but I imagine setting up and hosting two different wikis on the server is far from a simple undertaking.

If it comes down to having just one or the other and there isn't much interest in the updating and maintaining the talkhaus wiki, I guess my vote depends on how easily the intact content on it could be ported to an HTML archive; if that's at all feasible, then let's do that and repurpose the wiki to the ASMT one. If it's too much trouble or enough people want to actively keep the talkhaus wiki alive, I'd say just bring it back and we can keep the ASMT stuff on the Wikia site. Having it stuck with Fandom isn't ideal, but upgrading it shouldn't come at the expense of preservation, your emotional wellbeing/all of your free time, or the community's overall preference.

[rena]

Yeah, we've been reworking the old ASMBXT dev wiki to an encyclopedic wiki for the series. It's still pretty incomplete, but I keep coming back to update it every once in a while.
https://asmbxt.fandom.com/wiki/Demo
https://asmbxt.fandom.com/wiki/Cat_Planet_Cat
https://asmbxt.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Character

I don't see myself contributing to a revived talkhaus wiki but I'm still down for it being brought back even if only for the sake of archiving any documented community history that survived the spambots. Preferably it could be given its own subdomain and we could also set up a separate ASMT wiki that I could then port the character pages and stuff over to, but I imagine setting up and hosting two different wikis on the server is far from a simple undertaking.

If it comes down to having just one or the other and there isn't much interest in the updating and maintaining the talkhaus wiki, I guess my vote depends on how easily the intact content on it could be ported to an HTML archive; if that's at all feasible, then let's do that and repurpose the wiki to the ASMT one. If it's too much trouble or enough people want to actively keep the talkhaus wiki alive, I'd say just bring it back and we can keep the ASMT stuff on the Wikia site. Having it stuck with Fandom isn't ideal, but upgrading it shouldn't come at the expense of preservation, your emotional wellbeing/all of your free time, or the community's overall preference.

tbh the reason I didn't restore the old wiki directly was because it was mostly written by/about non fondly remembered users

and tbh I was thinking there'd just be one wiki instance with categories or w.e options mediawiki offers for talkhaus and related projects, but if you don't want that you can work with me to get a hosted wiki for just that. tho there's no point having a general talkhaus wiki unless people are going to use it

[Rixithechao]

Ahhh, I thought it mostly covered stuff like, idk, the zanyhost situation I guess?

A place dedicated to documenting raocow's work, the community collabs and contests, in-jokes, crossover lore, etc would be pretty nice and it's something I'd be more likely to contribute to. Right now the ASMT wiki kinda touches upon those things, but mostly in the sense of like



So yeah, if there's enough support for a general raocow/raofanon wiki then let's just do that. We can always figure out something else for the ASMT wiki.

[rena]

Ahhh, I thought it mostly covered stuff like, idk, the zanyhost situation I guess?

A place dedicated to documenting raocow's work, the community collabs and contests, in-jokes, crossover lore, etc would be pretty nice and it's something I'd be more likely to contribute to. Right now the ASMT wiki kinda touches upon those things, but mostly in the sense of like



So yeah, if there's enough support for a general raocow/raofanon wiki then let's just do that. We can always figure out something else for the ASMT wiki.

cool probably worth doing then :) I'd be up for writing some articles too when we have time. we can also just port over the relevant parts of the old wiki and spruce it up a bit, not like it really costs anything to have it

(also lol @ the stargate wiki page on water)

[rena]

see the announcement for an update:

talkhaus sites has two new features: a new talkhaus wiki open for editing by all talkhaus users, and roogle, a search engine for talkhaus sites that supports showing recently updated and random pages as well as search results! check it out now, or don't i'm not a cop!

i'm looking for wiki editors who want to write pages about talkhaus history, projects, contests etc. I made a start by migrating some content from the old wiki and writing some new pages about the random features i've added to talkhaus over the years:

https://wiki.talkhaus.com/wiki/Category:Easter_Eggs

(if you want to know about any other weird technical details let me know and I'll see what I can do)

the search will hopefully make the stuff you put on talkhaus sites more visible. at some point I'll try and integrate wiki page and talkhaus sites changes into the talkhaus somewhere too but I'm not sure exactly where yet. if you really don't want to show up on there you can use robots.txt!

I actually wrote the search from scratch and maybe i'll write about how that works on the wiki at some point. it's still a bit wip but it seems to work good enough to play with.

have fun! and I hope people like this because it was a bit of work to set up ;), thanks to Rixithechao for help with some of the mediawiki stuff and setting up some of the pages and templates!

[TiKi]

this is great but i wish there were four radio button settings

1. everything
2. non-wiki talkhaus sites only
3. wiki and files only
4. wiki (no files) only

[rena]

this is great but i wish there were four radio button settings

1. everything
2. non-wiki talkhaus sites only
3. wiki and files only
4. wiki (no files) only

ah good idea, the wiki is already downranked so it appears below every other site for now iirc but that's a better solution

[KobaBeach]

spent an hour or so redoing the asmt page