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What a bunch of odd and arbitrary statements. Examples: I often use logs older than 7 days for troubleshooting. I rarely troubleshoot only using last minute or hour data. I need aggregation most of the time when troubleshooting. I also treat most runtime environments as cattle so relying on it to keep logs locally would be wrong.


Why wouldn't they be able to remove an attribute they have added themselves?


This happened 10 years ago btw.


Why?


I mean, I appreciate the effort put into building this, but external tools like AWB, and userscripts/gadgets (plus a host of other goodies) can't be accessed over globally if it's on a completely different software. Almost every wiki on the net uses MediaWiki for good reason.

I will be happy if this Wiki.js platform does have compatibility with these features, though.


I guess the same reasoning would apply to WordPress, PHP and MySQL then (user scripts, penetration etc). Would that be your first choice when setting up a new web page?


> Almost every wiki on the net uses MediaWiki for good reason.

It is unclear to ne if you refer to statistics or gut feeling here. Would you mind clarifying?


By 'MediaWiki' I'm referring to the wikis and wiki farms that use MediaWiki or a variant of it. This includes:

- Wikimedia

- FANDOM

- Gamepedia

- Miraheze

FANDOM is the most massive wiki farm with over 360,000+ (as of 2016) wikis[1], which I'd give at lowest an estimate of 60% of the total number of wikis on the net, and is 88th on the Alexa rankings.[2] FANDOM is a wiki powerhouse, and you bet it uses MediaWiki.

Excluding WikiHow, I have never seen a wiki not use MediaWiki. As one of the guys that hops across many different wikis and wiki farms doing automated work, I cannot stress this enough.

[1] Brandon Rhea, FANDOM VP of Growth https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Choosing_Fandom?diff=next&... (dated June 14, 2016)

[2] Alexa.com https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fandom.com#section_traffic (dated ~21 July 2020)


> Excluding WikiHow

WikiHow is using mediawiki (or at least a fork of it) https://src.wikihow.com/

But there certainly exist other wikis and wiki-like projects that dont. MDN and OWASP wiki are prominent examples that moved away from mediawiki. I think mediawiki has most of the mass-collabotation market, but there is much more competition in the open-source project documentation niche (which people often use wikis for) and corporate knowledge base market.

P.s. for the interested, mediawiki has statistics at https://pingback.wmflabs.org/#unique-wiki-count (opt-in) and https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Main_Page (based on web crawling)


Gamepedia was bought by Fandom too, FYI.


They're apparently working hard to upgrade and merge their diverging MediaWiki codebases; some details on this very interesting blogpost: https://community.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:MisterWoodhouse/...


Neat, I actually sold a wiki to Curse pre-Gamepedia and worked there for a short while. Not very happy to see a single company gobble up so much of the online gaming community.


Stats, clearly.


Same way you trust hey.com not share all your email with everyone publicly. By building some kind of trust, describing how they work, their policies, being clear about how they make money and so on.


I don’t know of any VPN provider as trustworthy as DHH and Basecamp.


That's not relevant.


Sure it is! All of my network traffic is going over a VPN. Not the case with email.


> seamless integration option

My experience with PHP on Windows has been continously terrible. Was there some trick I missed? I have never seen any options in a vanilla IIS to enable PHP.


I’ve been out of the PHP game for a decade or so but Windows, Apache, and PHP always worked no problem. Maybe Windows, IIS, and PHP is a more fickle stack?


I have a tough time believing Microsoft wasn't intending their special builds of Windows PHP for IIS.


I found it mildly entertaining that the same form also instructs you to "Never give out your password."


credit card number is always safe to give out. you have zero liability, and the fraud detection in the backend is far far far better than what fly by night app of the day does.


That assumes that the the cost of troubleshooting this, replacing cards etc is zero, which it isn't.


it’s almost zero. i am forced to replace a credit card due to theft about every 3 years. it’s not a hassle at all.

in fact you are forced to replace your card just due to expiry every 1-4 years depending on issuer.


Is it called "soften the language" to fix a 100% factual error?

Honestly I feel that if you're arguing in one direction or another and haven't checked the facts, maybe it's better not to argue about it?


The vast majority of the Zoom software development team is based out of companies in China.

They do have support people in the US and a handful of non-support engineering which is why I said thanks and immediately updated the comment to say "majority" instead of "entire" since it's more correct.

That technicality is less relevant to the main point of the argument.


They do have a large R&D presence in China.

As of January 2020, they had 2,532 full-time employees. Of those, 1,396 were in the US and 1,136 were in international locations. Within the 1,136 is "more than 700" employees in R&D in China.[1]

A LinkedIn search for "engineer" working for "Zoom Video Communications" in location "United States" shows up 558 results.[2]

Their entire management team is in the US, and of their 17 data centres, only 1 is in China.[3][4]

[1] https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1585521/0001... [2] https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?facetCurrent... [3] https://zoom.us/team [4] https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/05/04/navigating-a-new-c...


My point was that you should check your facts before making an argument. Not exactly a crazy idea, right?


Your “point” was to be an asshole, and congratulations you’ve now succeeded twice.


I think you're just being overly sensitive to criticism. Not admitting that you're bullshitting is very weak. Maybe the two goes hand in hand.


If the original claim was "100% of the dev team is in China", and the reality is "only 80% of the dev team is in China", then that'd be a 20% factual error, mathematically speaking.


Or would it be a 25% error, i think it would make most sense to calculate the error-difference in relation to the actual value instead of in relation to the erroneous value.


Good point.


Haha. Do you also calculate levenshtein distance from true to false and say false isn't entirely false but a bit of true? And is it almost factually correct to say that 10 equals 8?


> And is it almost factually correct to say that 10 equals 8?

I mean, from a certain point of view, why not? If you're thinking in terms of 1, they're wildly different. If you're thinking in terms of 1,000,000,000,000, they might as well both equal 0.


Everything wears out of course, but I've had mine for 7 years going back and forth to work every day and never replaced my breaks or chain or cassette. Maybe you experience a quality issue if it's a frequent issue?


If the motor is in the hub, then I can believe wear on the chain and cassette is minimal. And if you use brakes very sparingly, they could also last for a long time. I'm interested in the brand of your pads, I need those! I have to change mine every 1000 kilometres.


> If the motor is in the hub,

Is this referring to motor as in an electrical bike? I am not using that.


Sorry, I mixed up with a different comment indeed. On electric bikes with the motor in the wheel hub, the transmission sustains little effort.


I bought a bike for $900 about 7 years ago. I ride to work every day (25km back and forth) and the maintenance have consisted of one tube and a few packages of lube for chain, probably around $50 in total. The tires need replacement but so far they hold up...


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