Talk:3269: Airport Meeting
- About this comic
Since there's no explanation text yet, the joke is that they left with the wrong suitcases. :) SevenTheGamingKitty (talk) 00:52, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
Not wanting to be pedantic, but the guide Michelin exists since 1900, three years before brothers Wright performed the first motor flight. There are older airports, but the first commercial terminal operated in Sydney since 1920, and before 1920, practically all commercial flight was postal service only, anyway. --2001:16B8:CC2E:500:9AAF:4351:6EB6:C918 21:09, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
This one of those times when I had no idea what the comic was trying to say without explainxkcd's explanation. Both baggage swap and criss-cross of end result being uncrossed at the beginning are hard to grasp. And now I'm stuck thinking how the comic could've been made better... (the best I've came up with was switching character exit direction in panel 3 so that characters would've faced the same way throughout; and to somehow emphasize tires in Ponytail's line since restaurant guide has that as the attention-focus word) 159.224.64.162 22:56, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
- About the wiki
Why can i not make first comment on last comic... also... what happened to the website??? 216.25.182.141 02:48, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
- The site was having problems for several days. It wasn't picking up the new comics, and we couldn't login. See the box at the top about some community members working on a replacement site, since the original maintainer isn't interested any more. Barmar (talk) 02:56, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
- Ah, so that's why the site felt so unstable recently. SevenTheGamingKitty (talk) 03:31, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
- Midwest America has been a bit unstable in terms of Internet since last Friday (Jul 3rd), brought on by a particularly bad storm. My home internet, usually pretty stable, has been out for a couple hours every day since the power came back on. Microsoft Azure has also had some issues recently. This may have either caused or exacerbated the recent site instability to a point where everyone noticed it this week. Not to say that the original maintainers lack of maintenance didn't contribute, but I don't think it was the whole story. (Dartania) 2601:40D:4283:28E0:2587:5B61:A9FE:1A87 15:52, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
- Ah, so that's why the site felt so unstable recently. SevenTheGamingKitty (talk) 03:31, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
- I didn't realise this was a sinking ship. Very sad. Hopefully someone is able to export all the explanations at least so that they can be ported over to a new site. And who is paying for the servers if the admins have all vanished? Alcatraz ii (talk) 03:46, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
- Not really a sinking ship, though might have been lacking the steersman necessary to carefully weave it around any inconveniently appearing icebergs (which could finally sink it; and looked like it had, until the reprieve just now).
- Multiple exports seem to have been made. And the absolute worst case for the recent problems was always likely to have been just a site frozen in aspic without further modification (at least until the server crashes, or stops being paid for, maybe due to entirely other reasons).
- In fact, I think I might blame several 'full site exports' from creating some of the (not utterly blocking) instability. Perhaps not all of them, but I've seen several people announce (elsewhere) that they've decided to make "a full copy", and only one of them directly suggested that they were doing so in a 'nicer' rate-limiting manner. Which suggests that the rest may not have realised they could/should. 82.132.236.148 11:38, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
- The full copies I know of that were made were Eunakria's and mine's, we both discussed this and we both independently rate limited it. Even if there was someone else out there who didn't, though, I don't think they particularly contributed. A wikiteam3 dump calling the API is small potatoes compared to the aggressive web scraping and bot traffic the site has been receiving (and on the new MediaWiki instance, which is about to become the canonical instance after Jeff transfers the domain over, I've added some things which should hopefully avoid these problems). Celene (talk) 09:30, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
- Is there any specific information about the new fork, who are creating it and is there any information on it? I'd like to help. Mouse 15:24, 10 Jul 20206 (CEST)
- You can join User:42.book.addict's explainxkcd Discord server for more information about the new fork. Capycapybara (talk) 17:16, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
- I didn't realise this was a sinking ship. Very sad. Hopefully someone is able to export all the explanations at least so that they can be ported over to a new site. And who is paying for the servers if the admins have all vanished? Alcatraz ii (talk) 03:46, 10 July 2026 (UTC)