User blog:C.Syde65/Technical Update: 15 June, 2017

{|width="100%" {|style="background: white; border: 3px solid navy; -moz-border-radius: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px; font-size:95%; width: 95%" align="center" It's been nearly nine months since the last time I wrote a community blog. But in light of the amount of technical updates that have taken place since that time, I felt that it would be impractical not to make a blog to address these updates, how they serve as an improvement to this wiki, how they serve as an issue, and what I have suggested we do about them.
 * colspan="2" align="center"| Technical Update: 15 June, 2017

Wikia has updated the design for the forum activity, chat, blog post, and recent wiki activity modules. This wasn't a problem since it was just a matter of updating the CSS to override those undesirable changes. These modules can still be customised without violating Wikia's TOU, so yeah, those changes were almost completely reverted with CSS.

Now less than two days ago, Wikia updated the header design which is an improvement in some ways, but it does serve as a downside which will be difficult to get around. We no longer have much control over how the header design looks without violating Wikia's TOU. Unfortunately we have no control over this issue.

The talk page button script which was created to successfully add talk page buttons to article pages so that they could be used in addition to comments is no longer working. As I do not have sufficient experience with JavaScript, I was unable to fix it myself, but I'm sure that before long we'll either have the talk button back, or we'll have a suitable JavaScript alternative to allow easy access to talk pages for article pages with comments enabled.

The font size of the article headings have increased significantly, and unless I'm very much mistaken, it would be a TOU violation to revert it back to it's previous size with CSS. The DisplayClock and QuickLicensing scripts are either no longer working in the case of the latter, or a TOU violation in it's current state in the case of the former.

So the DisplayClock script is no longer working for the Oasis skin, and it would be a TOU violation if we were to add it back. Hopefully a new script will be made in the future so that we can continue to have a clock display without it violating the TOU. The QuickLicense script which I got from The Sims Wiki is no longer working, and I don't know how to fix it. I will look into getting it fixed in the future.

The refresh button is now restricted only to certain namespaces which is a pain because it means that one has to manually refresh the page to be able to do so. Hopefully that'll be changed in the future. The   and    templates/magic words are no longer working, but I heard that it's a known bug and Staff are looking into fixing them.

It's been four days since a Community Discussion in the forum discussions about making changes to the User Rights Requests page was started. If anyone can give their thoughts and suggestions about what's being discussed, please do so! :D

I am currently thinking of changing the colours of the category boxes for the article pages and project pages so that they'll be consistent with each other, since I'm fussy like that and I like things to match.

For anyone that wants to remain true to the intended design for this wiki, check my wikia.css page for the CSS underneath the  /* New Navigation Bar Style Colour override */  section. And then add the CSS to your wikia.css page. Check for updates as I will be updating my own CSS in future just so you know.

I'm pretty sure that's all I've got to say right now to be honest. So best of luck for your future here on C.Syde's Wiki, for those of you who enjoy reading and/or contributing to this wiki! :D ― C.Syde  ( talk  |  contribs ) 23:34, June 14, 2017 (UTC)