Spiral Knights - Maybe the wiki is down for a reason

Maybe the wiki is down for a reason

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Wed, 10/11/2017 - 09:08

Im-Noob-Too

I'm just going off on a limb here, but maybe it is not a bug that the wiki is down. Perhaps GH is working on something there that is enough to require them to shut down the wiki for a while. Who knows, maybe they are doing a major over hall of the site with some new things being added to it. And maybe they are making new things in the game? Who knows, GH may not be as inactive as we think.
Idk, just putting some ideas for if it is purposely down, or is a bug like everyone is saying.
Go ahead and put here what you think is going down with the wiki and GH! These are just some things I wanted to put down, so feel free to add criticism to this and add to it if you want!

-Rill

Wed, 10/11/2017 - 14:18

Ghostrix

hmmm

It could also be a bad thing. What if they've lost the server or are unable to continue using the server that previously kept the wiki going?
It could also just be a very bad network issue. When trying to access the site, it gives me a Bad Gateway response, which means something crashed (or was shut down) that was keeping the site up. I'd assume if had been a big service maintenance though we would at least have been redirected to a page telling us the site was down for maintenance? right? idk....

It's been down a while though with no word from them on it. So God only knows why it's down. It'd be pretty cool though if they're doing something nice with the wiki to address issues with it or add things to it.

Wed, 10/11/2017 - 14:36

Ghostrix

also, on GH

Just so you're aware however, I do firmly think GH is much more active than anyone thinks. It's been a year since their last major update on these forums about what they've been up to, but given the little things I've noticed, like an FPS capping option in the advanced graphics options, which I think was added recently-ish, I think they're working on the underlying graphics and structures of SK. The game was written in Java with archaic java graphics libraries that are open sourced now. I'm sure they're a major pain to work with given that GH is too small to completely re-write SK with modern graphics libraries. I think they've been working on the existing code, to make it as good as they can. If they don't do this kind of work though, to deal with the maintainability, scalability, network and structure issues, new content in the future would only make the game more laggy and more bad. I think they're trying to avoid "spaghetti code". Because yeah sure, adding new things to the game probably wouldn't take massive amounts of time once they knew what they'll go with. But.. addressing SKs internals is a massive thing to start with, and I doubt a handful of devs are going to get real far real fast. So i'm just chillin in the meantime, grinding casually and being patient for them.

Thu, 10/12/2017 - 07:44

Im-Noob-Too

All plausible answers

All could be true, as I see in the grand scheme of things that they might be working on. I myself certainly hope the wiki isn't going down, because losing the wiki is literally losing a part of SK. And let's also hope that GH does not take the path that Sega did, with the endless promo redskins that basically ruined the game's player base. All myself and everyone else can really do is chill, keep playing, and hope for the best.

Sun, 10/15/2017 - 22:05

Flash-Flire

welp

I guess that settles it: it's back up and nothing radical's happened.
Guess it was just a problem with the server.

Sun, 10/15/2017 - 22:59

Im-Noob-Too

Yup, and since this this is a

Yup, and since this this is a topic on that, I'll just graveyard it then.

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Maybe the wiki is down for a reason