User:452

Wikia Problems
Wikia appears to have globally disabled DPL.

Javascript is currently not working, rendering many features useless, including:
 * The page editor
 * Message Walls (talk pages can be used in monobook)
 * The new forum (old forum can be used in monobook)

I fail to see how the new forum and message walls are superior to the wiki based solution of the old forum system and user_talk pages. -452 05:18, March 2, 2013 (UTC)

I've long maintained that sites which cannot function without javascript are not very good sites, and this outage only confirms it.

Every click which triggers a javascript function should fallback to a normal HTML link if something goes wrong.

Outages happen. Whether it's due to a server or client fault, there's no reason for a website to stop working simply because javascript does. Javascript is a great technology that enables some nifty things, but all sites should work perfectly well with normal, if javascript does not load.

It is not a matter of "if", it's a matter of "when". Today is when Wikia has ground to a halt, which could have been avoided if the site did not rely on javascript to function. -452 05:30, March 2, 2013 (UTC)