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 ===== Your site is ugly ======
 Your mom is ugly. Also That's not a question. It's not //ugly// it's //dated//. There's a difference. The default DokuWiki template was created in 2012, and reflects the design sensibilities and technical needs of the time. Yes other, seemingly prettier templates exist, but they all of dusty little corners that don't work, such as black text on a black background. I would rather have a dated site I know won't break than a pretty site that has janky corners.
+===== Can I edit pages? =====
+For now, no. This is my personal project.
+===== Why the domain "constructed.world"? =====
+I originally intended this site to be an instance of nodeBB to serve as a place on the Fediverse for conlang and conworld discussion. But the conlanging community is so small that I didn't want to fragment it even further. The community is served well by the CBB, ZBB, FrathWiki, etc. I've already complained about Mediawiki, and I'd love the forums to move away from phpBB, but changing platforms would result in a massive loss of history. Also, The Lonely Galaxy is a //constructed world//, so the name fits.
+===== Will you allow others to host their projects here? =====
+Short answer, no. I do think the conlanging community would be well served by a single site that acted as both a discussion platform and a place to showcase and document people's projects long term. That was part of why I bought this domain. The ideal platform would be a wiki forum combo. Like a forum, it would have robust discussion and moderation tools. Like a wiki, it would allow users to create pages, show backlinks, track version history, wanted and orphaned pages, etc.
+Something like Bookstack is very close to what I want. It even has a WYSIWYG editor by default (not every conlanger is a techie comfortable writing markup), but while it does have a comments section under each page, there's no browsable user list, private messages, or easy way to moderate discussions. You can't link to nonexistent pages, either.  It also isn't meant to scale horizontally.
+There is a project called Storyden that seems to be exactly what I'm looking for, but it's very early in development. It also leans into AI, which many people including myself are not comfortable with.