Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20180827202615/@comment-3547390-20180918224558

It would be good if we could... good if we could somehow manage to continue all of this or at least archive what exists. It is depressing to think of this possibly going away, especially after such a lively year. 2018 has been the most life on Quakewikia since around 2015 and we have designed it to hold quite a bit of info that the world would lose if they lost this. I am glad to have my Quake archive at the least. At least we still got into 2019, though I am scared for the future indeed, more so than any other law passed. At the least, we will still have Discord to talk, so the social aspect is pretty covered. It just would be disappointing to lose all of this.

Seems like it wouldn't be worth it, since hard drive corruption on a thing that can be a pain to install is not exactly something I look forward to.

Not at all, I would be pretty crazy to just... disappear... due to a simple issue. Yeah, sub-pages definitely aren't ideal, because that would lead to having to chain together a lot of pages inefficiently. I think the setup we have is the best solution possible, not perfect as said since we could still get long lists, but far better than before.

All we can do is continue to build things up here in the hopes it will be archived. As said, nothing is permanent, so doing this with the expectation that it will exist in a thousand years is folly. We can only do what we can, which hopefully will bring some good memories. If this is our last year here, let us at least make it a good one. I don't regret all the work we put in here, we built a little home out of a stack of boards. We were here when it went from a broken website to an actual place with standards and good design, we will be here to see the potential end nearly a decade later. In fact, 2008 was when most of the pages started getting designed, since 2006-2007 pretty much was a period of complete inactivity.

The sad part is that, in the event everything does fall apart, we wouldn't be able to even upload the archive more than likely. It would be limited to our computers, on flash drives. Perhaps we could even build it up using some CSS, but we wouldn't have the luck of a hosting site, and who knows if things would still function (since who knows how much is exclusive to this site). Still is a good idea to archive, but I can't imagine much being done with it besides being a memory of days past.

As scary as it sounds, it might hit me pretty hard, since who knows if Youtube will even support Let's Plays with such a copyright. I hope it isn't that bad, would be depressing to need to lose that as well. Enjoy Texture Demo 1 while you can, it may not exist in the future, in a world ruled by robots and copyright laws.

So the page has now been updated to fully support the new style. I have also backported it to Qtest, though of course the big difference is that the Player/Grunt category is the same due to there being no difference between textures in that (since people thought the Grunt was going to just be an enemy player).

Also note that you could always have a custom MDL file to change the looks of enemies that nobody else would see for the server. So if you wanted Xenomorph Fiends, you could do it. :P