User talk:Lettherebedarklight - Revision history

ExplainEuge.ca at 08:47, 17 December 2025

2025-12-17T08:47:15Z

DollarStoreBa'al: wait what

2025-11-04T01:42:42Z

wait what

DollarStoreBa'al at 13:59, 28 August 2025

2025-08-28T13:59:14Z

DollarStoreBa'al at 12:54, 28 August 2025

2025-08-28T12:54:27Z

Lettherebedarklight: reply

2025-08-23T14:46:26Z

FaviFake at 10:49, 20 August 2025

2025-08-20T10:49:57Z

42.book.addict: /* userpage heading */ new section

2025-08-19T18:24:46Z

‎userpage heading: new section

FaviFake: Undo revision 384393 by FaviFake (talk)

2025-08-17T21:42:20Z

Undo revision 384393 by FaviFake (talk)

FaviFake at 21:42, 17 August 2025

2025-08-17T21:42:13Z

Lettherebedarklight: Replaced content with "‮{{/hcuoton}}"

2025-08-17T08:07:17Z

Replaced content with "‮{{/hcuoton}}"

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	Why does the Chinese in your leaderboard name translate to 'The management committee's bonfire could not be "granted" by the People's Liberation Army. You went to manage it.'? Is this a reference I'm not getting? <div style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 16px; width: 760px; line-height: 150%;" class="plainlinks">--'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">converse</span>]]</sup></div>		Why does the Chinese in your leaderboard name translate to 'The management committee's bonfire could not be "granted" by the People's Liberation Army. You went to manage it.'? Is this a reference I'm not getting? <div style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 16px; width: 760px; line-height: 150%;" class="plainlinks">--'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">converse</span>]]</sup></div>
	01:42, 4 November 2025 (UTC)		01:42, 4 November 2025 (UTC)
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		+	:It is likely a random keyboard-smash done when the computer is in Chinese Input Mode. The initial letters spell <code>gwhghwfjfj'cie'nqngliof?</code>, which is likely a result of keyboard-smash done by a human on a QWERTY keyboard. [[User:ExplainEuge.ca\|ExplainEuge.ca]] ([[User talk:ExplainEuge.ca\|talk]]) 08:47, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

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	::Well... they don't show up in searches. So technically it's not affecting anybody. But I'll double-check the WP policies to make sure. Yours truly, --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">'''''converse'''''</span>]]</sup> 12:54, 28 August 2025 (UTC)		::Well... they don't show up in searches. So technically it's not affecting anybody. But I'll double-check the WP policies to make sure. Yours truly, --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">'''''converse'''''</span>]]</sup> 12:54, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
	:::Well, I've checked with my Wikipedia mentor, and these rules do not apply to independent wikis. So, unless an Admin has something to say about it, I think you're good. Feel free to keep your weird userpage names, I guess. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">'''''converse'''''</span>]]</sup> 13:59, 28 August 2025 (UTC)		:::Well, I've checked with my Wikipedia mentor, and these rules do not apply to independent wikis. So, unless an Admin has something to say about it, I think you're good. Feel free to keep your weird userpage names, I guess. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">'''''converse'''''</span>]]</sup> 13:59, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
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		+	==The chinese==
		+	Why does the Chinese in your leaderboard name translate to 'The management committee's bonfire could not be "granted" by the People's Liberation Army. You went to manage it.'? Is this a reference I'm not getting? <div style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 16px; width: 760px; line-height: 150%;" class="plainlinks">--'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">converse</span>]]</sup></div>
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	:i'm raeb, who's this "Lettherebedarklight" you're talking about? [[user:lett‪herebedarklight\|raeb]] 14:46, 23 August 2025 (UTC)		:i'm raeb, who's this "Lettherebedarklight" you're talking about? [[user:lett‪herebedarklight\|raeb]] 14:46, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
	::Well... they don't show up in searches. So technically it's not affecting anybody. But I'll double-check the WP policies to make sure. Yours truly, --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">'''''converse'''''</span>]]</sup> 12:54, 28 August 2025 (UTC)		::Well... they don't show up in searches. So technically it's not affecting anybody. But I'll double-check the WP policies to make sure. Yours truly, --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">'''''converse'''''</span>]]</sup> 12:54, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
		+	:::Well, I've checked with my Wikipedia mentor, and these rules do not apply to independent wikis. So, unless an Admin has something to say about it, I think you're good. Feel free to keep your weird userpage names, I guess. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">'''''converse'''''</span>]]</sup> 13:59, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

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	:I'm not sure that's required by WP policies? --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 10:49, 20 August 2025 (UTC)		:I'm not sure that's required by WP policies? --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 10:49, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
	:i'm raeb, who's this "Lettherebedarklight" you're talking about? [[user:lett‪herebedarklight\|raeb]] 14:46, 23 August 2025 (UTC)		:i'm raeb, who's this "Lettherebedarklight" you're talking about? [[user:lett‪herebedarklight\|raeb]] 14:46, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
		+	::Well... they don't show up in searches. So technically it's not affecting anybody. But I'll double-check the WP policies to make sure. Yours truly, --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">'''''converse'''''</span>]]</sup> 12:54, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

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	Hi Lettherebedarklight, it's me. Could you kindly change the heading of your userpage so that it lets others know that the page is your user page, and not "raeb"? Thanks, '''[[User:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:9pt;color:pink">42.book.addict</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:6pt;color:#B1E4E3">Talk to me!</span>]]</sup>''' 18:24, 19 August 2025 (UTC)		Hi Lettherebedarklight, it's me. Could you kindly change the heading of your userpage so that it lets others know that the page is your user page, and not "raeb"? Thanks, '''[[User:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:9pt;color:pink">42.book.addict</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:6pt;color:#B1E4E3">Talk to me!</span>]]</sup>''' 18:24, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
	:I'm not sure that's required by WP policies? --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 10:49, 20 August 2025 (UTC)		:I'm not sure that's required by WP policies? --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 10:49, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
		+	:i'm raeb, who's this "Lettherebedarklight" you're talking about? [[user:lett‪herebedarklight\|raeb]] 14:46, 23 August 2025 (UTC)

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	Hi Lettherebedarklight, it's me. Could you kindly change the heading of your userpage so that it lets others know that the page is your user page, and not "raeb"? Thanks, '''[[User:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:9pt;color:pink">42.book.addict</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:6pt;color:#B1E4E3">Talk to me!</span>]]</sup>''' 18:24, 19 August 2025 (UTC)		Hi Lettherebedarklight, it's me. Could you kindly change the heading of your userpage so that it lets others know that the page is your user page, and not "raeb"? Thanks, '''[[User:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:9pt;color:pink">42.book.addict</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:6pt;color:#B1E4E3">Talk to me!</span>]]</sup>''' 18:24, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
		+	:I'm not sure that's required by WP policies? --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 10:49, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

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		+	== userpage heading ==
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		+	Hi Lettherebedarklight, it's me. Could you kindly change the heading of your userpage so that it lets others know that the page is your user page, and not "raeb"? Thanks, '''[[User:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:9pt;color:pink">42.book.addict</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:6pt;color:#B1E4E3">Talk to me!</span>]]</sup>''' 18:24, 19 August 2025 (UTC)

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−	~~i like that you took the IP's comment seriously lol~~

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−	~~== Fuck is that bad? ==~~
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−	~~Is it normal that it will expire? What will happen? How often do websites get this close? tell me everything aaaaaa --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 15:01, 14 May 2025 (UTC)~~
−	:Drafting up a email to Davidy22 and Jeff right now regarding this issue. '''[[User:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:9pt;color:pink">42.book.addict</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:6pt;color:#B1E4E3">Talk to me!</span>]]</sup>''' 16:32, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
−	~~:i hope some sort of auto renew is on [[user:lett‪herebedarklight\|this website's domain expires in august]] 00:49, 15 May 2025 (UTC)~~
−	::Look at the "last renewed" date, the cycle is obviously year-by-year, so not that worrying. Barring the on-record payment details suddenly becoming invalid for any number of reasons, and the payee not caring to correct, or an active decision for the same person to call it a day and abort the renewal.
−	::If the cycle had been five years or ten years, or anything where 2009->2025 divided neatly into a larger number (say 8, but not so much the far more recent 4), then I might be worried that a not-so-active domain owner ''had'' manually renewed the last time "your N-year ownership fee is expiring soon, please log in to reserve it for the next N years" happened but was significantly at risk of being no longer able (or caring) to do it this time round.
−	::Of course, still could happen that way for N=1, last year, but the intervention/inertia happening so recently sort of proves that it's something the registree (and registrar) is still on top of. It's also like acting surprised that '''somebody has a birthday sometime this year'''. The number of people who ''don't'' is very roughly 0.07%, but I suspect {{w\|The Pirates of Penzance\|that particular loophole}} doesn't even exist where annual subscriptions are involved... Anyway, if you'd have looked at this same page one year ago, you'd probably have had exactly the ''exact same'' apparent immediacy looming, yet we got past it.
−	~~::Not to say that this is not the one year when it ''won't'' get renewed, just that the odds aren't high enough, on all available evidence.~~
−	::Also, if the domain and the hosting server aren't linked as a package deal (and I suspect that they aren't, with actual techy/nerdy types at the blunt end of this whole site, but haven't cared to track down that information), domain-loss doesn't mean automatic site-loss. Inconvenience, maybe, and frustration for us while it's sorted. Chances of a cyber-squatter leaping in for traffic capture/spoofing-for-profit? And/or hoping to make a high return on re-selling back to the initially forgetful past-owner when the mistake is realised. But the site software/database is probably intact enough, until the totally different time when the data is wiped (hosting or rack-space contract isn't renewed, or a sufficiently bad hardware (and backup hardware) crash that could actually happen ''any time at all'' without any so obvious forewarning!).
−	::A further point-of-failure (also recoverable, eventually, ''if'' there's someone still willing and able to manage the necessary changes) is if the Cloudflare proxy service ends, for any reason (e.g. proxy fees unpaid, Cloudflare itself stops operating, etc). Again, not something I can easily predict. But it puts the seemingly annual renewal process into perspective. I wouldn't actually start ''really'' worrying until the anniversary of the last renew passes (and then at least to the next working day, or two, inncas3 that's applicable), with about a month left to go, and still no sign of change.
−	::''NB'': to avoid the recursive templating, for something like that on your User page, one could 'includeonly' the workings on ''this'' page (if you had nowhere else to put it) and then transclude this one on the other, instead to neatly get whatever you wanted to appear there. I could suggest a sub-page (User:Lettherebedarklight/domaintime, or similar), but not for something that (one way or another!) is going to no longer be relevent after not too long.
−	~~::HTH, HAND! [[Special:Contributions/172.69.224.74\|172.69.224.74]] 05:31, 15 May 2025 (UTC)~~
−	~~:::Hey could you give us a summary of your answer pls? I'm interested in this. --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 17:23, 15 May 2025 (UTC)~~
−	~~::::"Is it normal that it will expire?" Yes. Commercial domain registrations have expiry/renewel cycles. Length may depend on the registrar and the domain.~~
−	::::"What will happen?" Your browser wouldn't know how to get here, from the "explainxkcd.com" name. But 'here' could still exist. ''May'' even be accessible by some obscure IP, which you're not likely to be told.
−	::::"How often do websites get this close?" If it's set to be renewed every year... '''every year'''. Renewal last year was one-month-minus-one-day before the 'birthday date', ''heavily'' implying it got down to that, then auto-renewed with zero fuss. (Or dealt with manually in a very efficient manner.)
−	~~::::"tell me everything aaaaaa" See above, for starters..? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.186.141\|172.68.186.141]] 20:59, 15 May 2025 (UTC)~~
−	:::::the ip is 172.67.157.56, but you have to use a Host header to see this site, so you can't access it through a browser like chrome. 21:43, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[[User:Treeplate\|Treeplate]] ([[User talk:Treeplate\|talk]]) 21:43, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
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−	~~Just to specifically inform those who are watching this particular page:~~
−	~~Doman: EXPLAINXKCD.COM~~
−	~~Updated On: 2025-07-11T07:07:51Z~~
−	~~Expires On: 2026-08-10T21:58:25Z~~
−	...so, the usual yearly cycle continues, and there's nothing (particularly) to worry about. Just everything else that could go wrong, at any time at all. [[Special:Contributions/92.23.2.228\|92.23.2.228]] 16:40, 11 July 2025 (UTC)
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−	~~== Please change your signature ==~~
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−	~~At the very least, your lack of punctuation and capital letter makes it look like part of whatever else you've just written, ''whatever that might have been''. Imagine reading:~~
−	*Ha ha yes this website's domain expires in august
−	*It's all trumps fault this website's domain expires in august
−	*I want to go to mars so much this website's domain expires in august
−	*I don't believe that this website's domain expires in august
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−	Re-add the link to here, your User Talk. If you ''still'' want to keep mentioning the matter, get the above full discussion added in (and added to). Rather than only a link to your 'countdown page', at least get people to either support or contest the facts in a place they can at least edit their own concerns/non-concerns without 'vandalising' your User-space.
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−	~~(You don't need to have that big recursion-error message on your User page, BTW. Easy to fix, even if you want to keep the time-until thing.)~~
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−	Finally, I believe it's unwarranted worry, ''anyway'', and I remember pointing that out to you a while ''before'' you still went ahead and changed your User page (and Signature?) like you did. But I'm not sure you're paying attention, so it might have to be fixed (removed/struckthrough?) by someone else. Which shouldn't really be me, but rest assured that I'll consider it an option if the time gets renewed and you're ''still'' 'warning' us about it.
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−	Please do comment (or wipe this whole lot out once it becomes no longer relevent), if you can, so that I know at least you've acknowledged it. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.213.196\|82.132.213.196]] 11:05, 6 June 2025 (UTC)
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−	~~:Agreed. --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 21:18, 10 June 2025 (UTC)~~