Welcome to the MiniDisc Wiki

Hi MD friends! The most egregious issues in the article mentioned prior have been corrected and we now return to our regularly scheduled programming. I doubt we will be mentioning this incident again in the future - let bygones be bygones.

We are still working on site reliability in the face of bot attacks; fixing an issue with WMDpro which is independent of the infrastructure move; and providing public backups.

Thanks so much for your love and patience while we chip away at these tasks in our spare time. I hope the wiki continues, and will continue, to help you on your MD journey.

Hi MD friends!

After a few evenings of work and a handful of outages (some preventable) I'm very pleased to announce that most of the work on the wiki infrastructure is complete! Edits on the wiki are now open and encouraged.

For visitors, this should mean:

• faster, more reliable page loads
• no more captchas before visiting
• LP remote encoders in WMDpro actually working
• long-term commitment to keeping the site online

To achieve this, we have:

• built a brand new wiki06 server
  • based on Debian 13, Epyc CPUs, NVMe storage, PHP 8.4 and Caddy
• updated our Cloudflare caching and bot blocking rules
• moved all object storage from Azure to Cloudflare (including the WMDpro app)
• retired the secondary LP encoder and load balancer
  • through the grapevine, I heard that local high quality LP encoding may be possible soon…

But still left to do:

• a fresh public backup of wiki data
• a page on the wiki listing these backups, because Cloudflare does not have a page listing like Azure did
• restoring oAuth2 login from Google, GitHub, Facebook
• a PR for Web MiniDisc Pro to allow for automatic build+deploy to our new Cloudflare Pages hosting
• maybe a status page, and an entirely static mirror of the wiki(?)
• re-scraping and mirroring more of the pages we reference on the wiki

Once again, thank you all so much for your patience, understanding, and kind words while we completed this important maintenance.

By my quick estimates, this will reduce hosting costs by over a thousand US dollars per year, and that means a lot when we're funded out of pocket and by donations. I am speechless with appreciation for everyone who has been willing to send their own money to us in support of the site, and understand that it comes with a responsibility to use those donations responsibly and not allow the money to be wasted on scraper traffic.

Because a penny saved is a penny earned, please send some love and coin to asivery [*], who is both one of the kindest people I have ever met and also one of the most talented developers. His leadership and work on WMDpro, reverse-engineering, and supporting the community is unmatched.

Thanks again :)