Equestripedia:Blog - Miraheze news

Hi. This should become a semi-regular occurrence on the site moving forward.

As you may know, Miraheze has been our hosting provider since I lost the ability to maintain this site out of my own pocket in early 2020. It's been... a bit of a bumpy road, Miraheze has had notorious issues since then of course, but has been generally reliable, ad-free, and supportive of us whenever we had technical issues. However, the issues have been taking their toll and it seems that the organization that maintains it has been steadily growing weaker.

So what does this mean for us? Well, for now, not much. Some Miraheze insiders/staff have been claiming that the internal issues are overblown and may not effect the company in the long run. This does not mean we should not begin preparing for the worst, however. Starting today, I will create database dumps of the wiki once a week to ensure our work will not be lost. Additionally, I'll request an image dump, and try to archive as much as this site as possible to Archive.org.

But on the topic of actually hosting this site... I've been pondering what we would do when Miraheze eventually falls for a few years now. I've briefly considered Fandom, but after several years of being an active "councilor" on Fandom, I've grown to, to put it eloquently, not appreciate many of their business practices and blind-eye to rampant bigotry as long as it gets them money. Unfortunately, most other wiki hosts have been having issues as well. ShoutWiki is all but dead, and the many others I forgot the names of have been down for years as well.

There are a handful of paid and/or ad-supported hosts I am looking into currently. Annoyingly, I've been out of a job for quite some time now, largely due to things outside of my own control, and so I can't pay out of my pocket currently as I did last time. I've been considering setting up a fundraiser/donation drive but we've never exactly been the most popular site so I do not know how well that'll fair.

I do want you all to know that I will not let this site die! I will find a way to continue it in some capacity in the worst case scenario.