Once again, I never would've thought that I would talk about the subject of terrible wiki's but here we are yet again to talk about the classic site that everyone's been talking about; Miraheze. It's almost as if there's a constant triangle working itself together. For those that don't know and need context, I made a post around the end of June titled "The Fall of Miraheze" and how it wasn't going to sustain itself until a user stepped in and bought the keys to the company. Well now things have quite change within the past 8 months and to be perfectly honest, it makes people wonder what the future of Miraheze is going to be and it's not looking good for the most part.
Quick Recap:
Miraheze is an open-source wiki creator that was founded in 2015 by Ferren Tufan and John Lewis and their headquarters is based in The Netherlands. Miraheze relies on people who create fanbase wikis and many users contribute as Volunteers. Despite the site being a non-profit web hosting service, they heavily rely on donations to keep the site rolling and have a receipt board on who donated and what they spend the money on. Miraheze had been on the subject of controversies regarding the fanmade wikis and had been suffering through financial problems though having enough money to keep it up and running. They had plans to shutdown from a tweet on June 16, stating a shutdown beginning on August 31. During this time, a CFO and SRE member of Miraheze by the name of Labster said that he would try to keep the site up. Three days later on June 19, Miraheze announce that the site is NOT shutting down and addressed the confusing regarding the previous tweets.
What's New:
DDoS Attacks / Maintenance Problems & Outages:
Since this is the first update to the original post in June, there's actually stuff going on with Miraheze that is just downright crazy. With the return of Miraheze being brought back up into the light again, this also came with some serious problems with it. On July 3rd of 2023, one of the wiki's titled femboyslove suffered a series of 6 DDoS attacks within one day alone. The wiki itself was locked until further notice and it was eventually closed because of users not being able to edit the pages within the 60-day period. Many users eventually connected the dots with the fear of the DDoS attack happening again.
This was just the first of the problems that Miraheze was facing and it was leading to the questionable future for the wiki creation site as a whole. Between mid to the ending of September, they were facing the DDoS Attacks yet again and that everything would be put on hold until things were stable enough. With the hosting service being in The Netherlands, DDoS Attacks were quite common. At this point it's already a very rocky start but it wouldn't end there. In November (and a little bit in January), Miraheze suffered a lot of maintenance problems as well as constant outages of the service. They did switch to an RfC client that was approved by them in December but it didn't do much good. Now they are experiencing database issues. This was probably the worst idea to keep the site running considering the fact it has a fair share of controversies regarding their wikis.
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