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| − | Hi, I found a way to download the picture. First, you click "edit", then when you are in the edit screen, you right click, and then you can save the image.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.154|108.162.246.154]] 01:24, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
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| − | It is working on address https://xkcd.com/1975/ and not working on https://www.xkcd.com/1975/. Urls to comics should be updated to exclude www part. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.226.58|172.68.226.58]] 09:28, 26 March 2020 (UTC) tadej
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| − | I think there is no more JS source for it. I can only find it at [https://web.archive.org/web/20190817141628/https://xkcd.com/1975/alto/comic.js archive.org]. [[User:Biran4454|Biran4454]] ([[User talk:Biran4454|talk]]) 14:29, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
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| − | Has this stopped working for anyone else? I just went to the comic today and the right click menu that showed up was the normal one, rather than
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| − | the altered one. Is this happening with anyone else? [[User:DanTheTransManWithoutAPlan|DanTheTransManWithoutAPlan]] ([[User talk:DanTheTransManWithoutAPlan|talk]]) 15:44, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
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| − | :Yeah. I noticed this a while back, but accidentally put it at the bottom of the talk. When I go to the source, it says it can't find it. The last known code is the code I placed above. [[User:Biran4454|Biran4454]] ([[User talk:Biran4454|talk]]) 16:58, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
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| − | Can somebody explain why almost all of the April Fools Day comics stopped working, when [[1110: Click and Drag]] and [[1608: Hoverboard]] Still work as usual?[[Special:Contributions/108.162.242.5|108.162.242.5]] 16:09, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
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| − | :I have no idea. Maybe Randall has just stopped them - but that would be really annoying because they are still really cool. Biran4454 17:57, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
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| − | ::...but why though? What reason would he have for shutting them down?[[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.116|108.162.216.116]] 20:00, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
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| − | :::It seems to work fine now. I don't know when it started working again. Biran4454 11:51, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
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| − | Sorry if this has been found already, but I'm going to post it since I haven't seen it anywhere in here. If you input the konami code into https://uni.xkcd.com/ weird stuff happens. First time around, it puts all the letters in caps. Second time, it doesn't seem to do anything? Next, text gets highlighted in red. Another and the screen starts shaking. Another; the screen sort of flashes and a character with a beard holding two katanas/machetes with XK CD surrounding it appears faintly in the background. I've done the code maybe 20 more times and nothing else seems to happen. [[User:Tidepool|Tidepool]] ([[User talk:Tidepool|talk]]) 21:47, 24 May 2018 (UTC)Tidepool
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| − | :That's probably Richard Stallman. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.243|162.158.74.243]] 22:46, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
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| | Sorry if this is already well known, but there are a couple unlisted commands, e.g. you can delete things individually using rm -rf. It looks like auto-completion and * don't work. [[User:Power Factor|Power Factor]] ([[User talk:Power Factor|talk]]) 03:27, 2 April 2018 (UTC) | | Sorry if this is already well known, but there are a couple unlisted commands, e.g. you can delete things individually using rm -rf. It looks like auto-completion and * don't work. [[User:Power Factor|Power Factor]] ([[User talk:Power Factor|talk]]) 03:27, 2 April 2018 (UTC) |
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| − | Could be known already, but sending "hi" or "hello" (case indifferent) to uni.xkcd.com elicits a response of "Hi." and "Hello" respectively. Sending "xkcd" gives "Yes?" back. All of these are in all caps if the Konami/Contra code easter egg has been activated.
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| | Reluctant to call it an Easter Egg, but Utilities / Identify Song / Hey Now / Hey now na now / Sing "This Corrosion" to me inverts the colours on the comic/background [[User:Maslink|Maslink]] ([[User talk:Maslink|talk]]) 02:02, 2 April 2018 (UTC) | | Reluctant to call it an Easter Egg, but Utilities / Identify Song / Hey Now / Hey now na now / Sing "This Corrosion" to me inverts the colours on the comic/background [[User:Maslink|Maslink]] ([[User talk:Maslink|talk]]) 02:02, 2 April 2018 (UTC) |
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| | '''COMIC MAY BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION''' I think one of the menu options change since the comic was first posted. Randall may still be changing things. --[[User:Videblu|Videblu]] ([[User talk:Videblu|talk]]) 01:15, 2 April 2018 (UTC) | | '''COMIC MAY BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION''' I think one of the menu options change since the comic was first posted. Randall may still be changing things. --[[User:Videblu|Videblu]] ([[User talk:Videblu|talk]]) 01:15, 2 April 2018 (UTC) |
| − | : I agree. It's not just that menu items unlock. On a fresh refresh of the comic, items are there that weren't there before, such as file > find > who what etc., some that had been greyed out are no longer grey.
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| | : Actually it's that once you do some things others "unlock". For instance, accessing File > Open > A:\ > Insert > Floppy disk, and then File > Open > A:\ you get the Games, Music, and the really cool Bookmarks catalog of comics. Also, as said above, completing the game ADVENT.exe lets you go to save: | | : Actually it's that once you do some things others "unlock". For instance, accessing File > Open > A:\ > Insert > Floppy disk, and then File > Open > A:\ you get the Games, Music, and the really cool Bookmarks catalog of comics. Also, as said above, completing the game ADVENT.exe lets you go to save: |
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| | I read the comic, tried to save, it saved. Check what saved, was the same comic. How boring. LOL! Guess Randall doesn't think people read XKCD on iPads (or maybe just that he doesn't think anybody is reading on an iPad 1 with iOS 5.1.1). :) [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 04:44, 3 April 2018 (UTC) | | I read the comic, tried to save, it saved. Check what saved, was the same comic. How boring. LOL! Guess Randall doesn't think people read XKCD on iPads (or maybe just that he doesn't think anybody is reading on an iPad 1 with iOS 5.1.1). :) [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 04:44, 3 April 2018 (UTC) |
| | :Not your iOS 5.1.1's problem, basically all the interactive comics are like that with iPads, even if using iOS 10. (On my iPad, [[1608: Hoverboard]] works but lags and controls are awful, [[1663: Garden]] can't run, [[1037: Umwelt]] refuses to appear, you can't do anything in [[1193: Externalities]], and as for ''this comic''... *flips table* ) The only comic that works perfectly on my iPad is [[1350: Lorenz]]. [[User:Herobrine|Herobrine]] ([[User talk:Herobrine|talk]]) 11:25, 3 April 2018 (UTC) | | :Not your iOS 5.1.1's problem, basically all the interactive comics are like that with iPads, even if using iOS 10. (On my iPad, [[1608: Hoverboard]] works but lags and controls are awful, [[1663: Garden]] can't run, [[1037: Umwelt]] refuses to appear, you can't do anything in [[1193: Externalities]], and as for ''this comic''... *flips table* ) The only comic that works perfectly on my iPad is [[1350: Lorenz]]. [[User:Herobrine|Herobrine]] ([[User talk:Herobrine|talk]]) 11:25, 3 April 2018 (UTC) |
| − | ::Yeah, that's been my experience. I remember for Umwelt I got what looked like a black hole, which I think might have been the titular Umwelt. I seem to recall the description identified that as being some obscure set up I've never heard of, LOL! I also remember Garden didnt even do anything on my computer! I could change the lights, but that was it. I can't remember Externalities and Lorenz by name. But since my iPad CAN save images I hoped this would be different. Like saving it would, as promised, save a different comic (like Umwelt showed a different comic depending on your set up and connection). *sigh* [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 04:28, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
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| − | ::EDIT: Checking now, can't remember seeing Externalities, I've certainly never tried it on a computer (I think I just dismissed it as "Oh well" and moved on). Lorenz I did indeed try it a bit on a computer. Hoverboard I went literally everywhere reachable, LOL! [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 04:34, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
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| − | [https://i.imgur.com/4X4jD6j.png This] is what the whole network of menus looks like, minus the massive Comics tree. The big cluster near the center is the DnD game, and the single-file trail on the left is Who's on First. Blue circles are menus, red are links, purple are client-side JS calls, pinks are null (they just collapse the menu), and yellows are "tags" - client-side state variables that are set or unset by some menu options. The orphaned pair of grey dots at the top are the Save menu, which is only visible when a tag is set by the ADVENT.EXE or Mornington Crescent games. I'll try to make this some kind of interactive graph that people can explore - the actual DB I made contains more data than is visible in the image. [[User:Okofish|Okofish]] ([[User talk:Okofish|talk]]) 15:27, 3 April 2018 (UTC) | + | [https://i.imgur.com/4X4jD6j.png This] is what the whole network of menus looks like, minus the massive Comics tree. The big cluster near the center is the DnD game, and the single-file trail on the left is Who's on Second. Blue circles are menus, red are links, purple are client-side JS calls, pinks are null (they just collapse the menu), and yellows are "tags" - client-side state variables that are set or unset by some menu options. The orphaned pair of grey dots at the top are the Save menu, which is only visible when a tag is set by the ADVENT.EXE or Mornington Crescent games. I'll try to make this some kind of interactive graph that people can explore - the actual DB I made contains more data than is visible in the image. [[User:Okofish|Okofish]] ([[User talk:Okofish|talk]]) 15:27, 3 April 2018 (UTC) |
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| − | I made a scraper that downloads all the jsons, and also makes a graphviz graph. Code: https://github.com/ad1217/xkcd1975scraper, Graph: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ad1217/xkcd1975scraper/master/out.svg (save the graph and open it in Inkscape or something, it is rather large). [[User:Ad1217|Ad1217]] ([[User talk:Ad1217|talk]]) 19:58, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
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| − | Where is the source file for this comic? I had trouble figuring out what was happening from opening my browser console. I can usually figure out things like e.g. kittens game, etc. Which file has the source for the right click menu in this comic? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.130|108.162.210.130]] 17:41, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
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| − | :It's [https://xkcd.com/1975/alto/comic.js here], but the interesting stuff happens server-side. You'll get more info by looking at the network tab in your browser's developer tools. [[User:Okofish|Okofish]] ([[User talk:Okofish|talk]]) 19:03, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
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| − | None of the "links to ___" things actually link to anything here. I guess they use window.open or something similarly silly that does not work in real browsers. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.210.88|162.158.210.88]] 08:43, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
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| − | When you play the "Backup" noise, the audio quality isn't that great, it seems to be recorded from a device. Also, you can hear what seems to be a bird chirping and a mouse click. Can anyone else verify this? [[User:625571b7-aa66-4f98-ac5c-92464cfb4ed8|625571b7-aa66-4f98-ac5c-92464cfb4ed8]] ([[User talk:625571b7-aa66-4f98-ac5c-92464cfb4ed8|talk]]) 22:39, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
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| − | This morning I tried to follow the path in the cave again (in ADVENT.EXE) but found that it's changed, the cave leads me to a "grue" which ate me, now ADVENT.EXE just returns "you've been eaten by a grue" and doesn't let me go anywhere. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.113|108.162.221.113]] 13:06, 5 April 2018 (UTC) Sam
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| − | Sooooo just FYI, any similarities to Ready Player One are 100% unintentional. (I can't speak for Randall but I worked on that bit and I haven't read/seen it.) It was just an Easter egg unlock because it was... literally Easter. And we put it there and in Mornington Crescent as the longest/most complicated paths. Apparently if you throw enough 80s/90s nerd references at the wall now, you get Ready Player One. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [[Special:Contributions/172.68.141.232|172.68.141.232]] 18:46, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
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| − | Why is this still incomplete? [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 16:47, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
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| − | :Because nobody is yet convinced enough (rightly or wrongly) that it is complete? And, given that there were fairly recent revisions (in January and February, with different tweaks that may be considered hovering around/near substantive), perhaps we comunally think there's room for improvement?
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| − | :But if you think it is complete (and I'm not even saying that you should thoroughly rule out there being any more undocumented features to it, though I'd say that'd help - easier for a single-panel static comic than this, naturally) then you could take the plunge. Explanations can still change ''after'' being 'complete'.
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| − | :Or leave it, because there's no harm in (official) Incompletedness even if it is factually complete. The mechanism of highlighting articles (originally those with ''no'' Explanation, that needed creation, before the one supposed to "fill in the details") is now much of a curiosity and a boilerplate thing that gives the community here a place to express our own single guaranteed spot of humour (the thing the BOT might get changed to).
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| − | :That's the beauty of the wiki, you can do what you like and (so long as it isn't grossly against the group's expectations, and get bounceback) perhaps shift the centre of the common attitude to how these things should be conducted. And you're a good (nitpicking) editor, where I've rarely seen you edit with anything that I'd consider outright wrong (not claiming to be an authority on this; I'm clearly not, just my observation!) so I'm perfectly happy to let you think about this. And I couldn't ever stop you thinking/doing, anyway. ;) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.159|141.101.99.159]] 22:40, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
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| − | How do you post screenshots here lol [[User:Psychoticpotato|Psychoticpotato]] ([[User talk:Psychoticpotato|talk]]) 16:02, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
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| − | On an iPad (Safari) I can't manage to touch any options apart from File, Edit, Close and Backup. Therefore I cannot experience the interactivity of the comic. Has this happened to you? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.185|172.70.85.185]] 19:19, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
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| − | There is a programming language under the same name. [[User:ColorfulGalaxy|ColorfulGalaxy]] ([[User talk:ColorfulGalaxy|talk]]) 20:20, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
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| − | :Indeed, and it looks [https://esolangs.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent good fun], though I'm only presently running its potentialities through my own head (slightly distracted by having a copy of {{w|The Great Bear (lithograph)|a very similar map}} currently up on my wall). Certainly the same source of inspiration, perhaps with a proper nod to the formalised rules as eventually brought together by Stovold, though no reference there to laterals, being in Nidd, etc... [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.175|172.70.85.175]] 20:50, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
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