The scaling update
Our latest wiki update brings a brand new experimental backend to improve our services as well as further improvements to caching and wiki scalability.
Let's take a deeper look below!
🧪 New experimental backend
We've equipped the website with a new experimental backend to address long-running issues with caching and poor page load times (usually as a result slow external API queries).
Decoupling the frontend from tasks related to data processing and moving them to a separate service allows us to run heavier computations for longer times, with finer control over concurrent access. As the website grows and wikis become larger and more demanding on compute, we should be able to maintain the same performance even during peak usage times.
In addition, the new backend allows us to run more analytics-related tasks, which will come in handy when we introduce support for custom recipes.
For now, documentation pages have been migrated to the backend service. In the future, we intend to migrate the rest of dynamic user interactions, such as database access or content reporting.
Track the website status
The uptime of all related services can be found at our new Status page, which you can also find in the wiki page footer.
🖼️ Custom embeds
Each mod page now gets their own embed image to show off on social media, including the homepage and non-content pages.
This means anytime you link a page on Discord, Reddit, Mastodon or your other favourite websites, the wiki will show a preview of the page contents instead of the generic wiki embed we've had until now.
Mod homepage
The mod's homepage will display the mod name, the project summary and mod icon.
Content page
Content pages will show the page title, origin mod name and optionally the content icon.
Non-content page
Non-content pages will display the page title and the origin mod name.
🔧 Miscellaneous changes
Language translations
As of this update, the website has been fully translated into several languages courtesy of our community members.
These include:
- German (Deutsch)
- French (Français)
- Traditional Chinese (繁體中文)
Bugfixes
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💡 Improved browse page loading speeds
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Fixed crafting recipes not showing their output
Summary / TL;DR
✅ In this major update, we made the following changes:
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🧪 Introduced a new backend service to improve website performance and future scalability
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🖼️ Added per-page embed images to display fancy previews on social media
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🐛 Fixed bugs and worked on further improving page load times
🏗️ Features to look forward to, coming in the near future:
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🐘 The Wiki Developer Toolkit gradle plugin is going to be published on the Gradle Plugin Portal!
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📤 The Item Asset Exporter helper mod will get new export options and progress visualization!
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🗺️ UI Improvements to the homepage and project list
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🛠️ Support for more project types - document your modpacks, resourcepacks, datapacks, shaders, anything!
🤝 We're looking for your feedback
Our team is working hard on improving the website's interface and feature set to bring you the next generation wiki for all of modded minecraft.
As always, please make sure to let us know if you have any suggestions or ideas we could implement on the wiki! Any feedback is appreciated!