Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-966262-20160718023815/@comment-966262-20160831110614

Dessamator wrote:

Contact Wikia employees directly for official support (see S:C/bug).

Thanks. Done!

Of course there's a good chance that they'll tell you that the bug here is that the interface claims it supports non-javascript usage, when it clearly doesn't for the moment.

Well, that *is* a bug :)

Anyway, as an alternative, one can go to preferences and change one's layout (skin) to monobook, and it will work without javascript.

Thanks. Hadn't spotted it was available. This makes a huge difference: with Monobook, Wikia has gone from treacle slow to lightning fast, from ugly to bearable, and from being unusable without JavaScript (and hence largely unusable for me) to potentially being usable. Thanks again!

However, there is no apparent way to use this forum without JavaScript. I had to temporarily enable it to reply to you :(

As such, if I don't follow up here any further, that will be why. I really don't feel comfortable enabling JavaScript, even temporarily, and especially not over plain HTTP.

''It's 2016. It's post-Snowden. JavaScript injection attacks occur in the wild. HTTPS would provide some protection, but it is not all that reliable (rogue CAs, SSLstrip, ...) and anyhow, community.wikia.com isn't even served over HTTPS :(''

Speedit wrote:

Are you using NoScript?

NoScript is excellent in lots of ways, albeit with the limitations you mention. I'd prefer not to say which mechanism I use to disable JavaScript.