And the politics invades what little else there is, and not in an organic way, either.

It’s a Reddit clone. What did you expect?

Isn’t that what hashtags are for. Tag your posts and people interested in those tags can find them.

I also thought the lack of algorithms was a selling point.

Absolutely not. If Lemmy is a content waterfall than Discord is Niagara. What I want is a forum. But nobody uses forums anymore.

Lemmy? the politics.

the fediverse? I know I’ve said this like a billion times to the same five people who come on here, but federated platforms still ape the format of big social media platforms, and inherit many of their pitfalls. I want long-term discussion and human connection, not an endless waterfall of content that quickly gets swept away.

These video game ones now have me wondering if anyone else was told they could unlock extra characters in Super Smash Bros (N64) by clicking certain names in the credits.

The methods for unlocking these supposed secret characters were always ridiculously convoluted, so if it didn’t work you were probably doing it wrong. Like beating the game 10 times on level 9 difficulty with 1 stock with Pikachu would unlock Mewtwo, etc.

But like I said above, the stuff that was legit was often so weird and seemingly arbitrary that the fake stuff sounded more plausible. Talk to a specific NPC, fly to a specific area and surf up and down a specific coast, and you’ll encounter a glitched pokemon that will duplicate the sixth item in your inventory. Yeah it was all about memory registers or whatever, but I didn’t know about that stuff at the time.

I’ve heard of this (way after the fact). IIRC it was part of some player’s guide, and may have been included either as a joke by the author or a copyright trap by the publisher.

Seems I was right. Per this wiki article Apologies for linking to Fandom.

No cootie insurance though

Man oh man I could probably have a whole thread just for video game urban legends from the late 90s. That’s when some of your friends had internet, but maybe you didn’t, so there was just enough legit info to make the fake stuff seem believable (looking at you, MissingNo). Luigi in SM64, all sorts of secret Smash 64 characters, literally the entirety of Pokemon.

Kingdom Hearts. People love it. I do not.

clarifying edit: the whole Disney meets Final Fantasy concept is just like peanut butter and pickles to me. I like (classic) FF, I don’t hate Disney, but the two just do not go together. From the plot summaries and fan videos I’ve come across, it strikes me that whoever writes this stuff loves to set things up but never knows how to resolve them, so I think I’d end up hating it even if I did find the concept appealing.

Oh and the fact Sora got into Smash over Waluigi still burns.

Judging by how productive I’ve been just in the last 8 hours, I’d say going from Mediawiki to Dokuwiki was a good choice. I’m not even sure why. DW still uses markup instead of a WYSIWYG editor, which I’m fine with. I think it’s the namespaces. MW does have them, but you have to set them up with a config file on the server, and adding and removing them cannot be done lightly. With DW it’s as easy as searching for new_namespace:some_new_article, and the namespace is created along with the article. So I have a scratchpad namespace where I can work on drafts, a stories namespace to put my attempts at creative writing, a lore namespace for, well, canonized lore tidbits, and so on. And I don’t need to worry about names colliding like I did with MW where lore articles and story titles often conflicted.

DW lets you use hierarchy when it works, and loose categories (tags) when it doesn’t (with the tags plugin that is). With MW you just have categories but no hierarchy. Bookstack is the opposite. It forces you to use its shelf>book>chapter>page organization system. It does have tags, too, but you can’t have pages outside of books, and the pages have an explicit order. You can fairly easily change that order, but it’s always there.

Back to DokuWiki, the blog plugin has proven invaluable over the last few days. I can jot down ideas as blog entries and push them to the main lore namespace if I think they’re worth keeping.

If I haven’t scared you away with my nonsense, the DW instance is now public. The link I provided earlier should point to the new server. https://constructed.world/

I’m aware they’re still around. I appreciate that they only come out with something when they think it’s worth making (and have time to make it) rather than desperately trying to stay relevant. But the flash era enabled a kind of interactivity that I’m not sure is possible in these latter days of passive content consumption.

At the time, I thought this April fools’ video was their way of saying they wanted to wind things down. I also think Marzipan’s Answering Machine 17 was a brilliant way to celebrate the site, and I would have been happy if that was the last thing they ever made. (Also you know the OUYA screwed up if H*R is making fun of it).

But I do mourn the seemingly immanent loss of the wiki. I hope someone else can revive it. I think the TV Tropes article on H*R calls the wiki “disturbingly comprehensive”, and that’s an apt description. I used it to read the transcripts of new toons after watching them as there often visual gags I missed that the text would point out.

Tvtropes is starting to go downhill. I know they need to fund the site but the ads are out of control. There used to be one static ad in the corner not obstructing the content. Now it’s looking more like Fandom. And they block ad blockers.

I guess I can say Homestar Runner and now the Homestar Runner Wiki.

It’s behind the hamburger menu (3 horizontal lines on the top left of the page), at least with the latest default skin. You can also check out a list of all pages by searching Special:AllPages, and a list of all categories with special:categories The categories will in turn take you to lists of pages tagged with that category. It’s great for going on wiki walks.

The DW instance isn’t public (yet) but here’s a link to the currently public mediawiki instance.

https://constructed.world/

I never invested the time to make the content very discoverable, so you’ll have to make copious use of the random page and what links here features if you want to see what I’ve written.

Enjoy my stress-induced maladaptive daydreams.

Otter’s almost there. It needs a few things before I’d call it a wiki rather than just a documentation system, namely backlinks and a way to differentiate between links to existing and nonexisting pages, as well as a way to see what nonexisting pages are most wanted.

I’m currently migrating my worldbuilding and conlanging project to Dokuwiki. Right now I have an Obsidian vault used for brainstorming and drafting and a public Mediawiki for stuff I feel is worth showing off. Like Obsidian, DW stores everything as plaintext (it’s not markdown but it’s readable and the tables are better IMO). Like Mediawiki, DW keeps a version history so I can keep track of how my ideas evolve over time, which is crucial for conlang documentation. I keep tons of example texts that may reflect earlier phases of the grammar and vocab that I may need to reference. Unlike both Obsidian and MW, Dokuwiki has access control, so I can keep a private namespace for drafts and a public namespace for stuff I think is polished enough to show.

I’m not sure DW meet’s OP’s requirements for “out of the box” functionality though. I think it’s intended to be rather bare bones but be very easy to extend with plugins. The plugin browser is built in, so customization is a breeze. Plugins can be individually installed, enabled, disabled, and updated through the admin GUI.

Bookstack comes up a lot when “easy to use” is mentioned. It has a WYSYWIG editor by default and has a fairly simple install using a shell script on their docs website. Problems I have with it are it’s not really a wiki. You can’t link to nonexistent pages or see what other pages link to the current page (There are backlinks, I was mistaken. It’s under the “info” section on the right side of the page). It’s more of a documentation system.

But I’ve seen it out in the wild being used for your use case (Tunic game wiki)