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 (the old wiki based talk pages can be used in monobook)
 * The new forum (the old wiki based 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)

Javascript is optional
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)