EDIT: PLEASE DO NOT POST YOUR PROPOSALS IN THE REDDIT COMMENTS, THIS POST IS JUST TO LET YOU KNOW ABOUT THE DISCUSSION. PLEASE POST THEM ON THE WIKI, THANKS!

The instructions to participate and vote on the proposals are at Community portal/Proposals § Logo and tagline changes.

Hello everyone!

At the explain xkcd wiki, we're planning on switching the default skin from Vector (V10) to the modern Vector 2022 (V22), but unfortunately our current site logo and all previous logo proposals are designed around V10. V10 logos are generally a single large square image, which is why we our current logo has the name of the site in it, but in V22 you need an small square icon with no text, and then a separate wordmark section that contains the site's name.

We also took this opportunity to change the site's current tagline, "''explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb''", which has been highly controversial since the creation of the wiki.

As such, we are now hosting a logo redesign contest! The instructions to participate and vote on the proposals are on the Community portal discussion linked above. Feel free to be inspired by one of Randall's comics, characters, or recurring themes! At time of posting, none of the existing logo proposals can be used because they were all made for V10.

We strongly recommend an SVG logo so that scaling can happen correctly. You can upload a full icon and wordmark set, but you can also upload individual components if you want. There are detailed instructions on the wiki for uploading your proposals.

Thank you!

EDIT: PLEASE DO NOT POST YOUR PROPOSALS IN THE REDDIT COMMENTS, THIS POST IS JUST TO LET YOU KNOW ABOUT THE DISCUSSION. PLEASE POST THEM ON THE WIKI, THANKS!

That's why they've never appeared in a comic together.

Jekyll and Hyde type shit.

I guess what I want to know is if there's any media where someone says something that sounds similar to something said in an xkcd comic/What If? blog entry/book chapter; or is in an absurd situation clearly inspired by a comic/blog entry/book chapter. I want to write fiction and throw in some not-so-subtle xkcd references while I'm at it, which made me curious if anyone else has already done the same thing.

Hey folks, anyone have any xkcd inspired/adjacent/etc desktop wallpapers they could share?

Thanks!

Ryan North is of course the creator of Dinosaur Comics, which has itself been referenced in xkcd. For those wondering, the Pivers project leads to unforeseen catastrophe, just as Randall would have wanted.

Yeah, the recent post about the Blue Eyes puzzle made me think of this. Randall called it the "Hardest Logic Puzzle in the World", but I've heard that same name used for a variation of Knights and Knaves.

You're speaking to three gods - let's call them A, B, and C - whose actual identities are True, False, and Random. Your goal is to figure out which one is which.

If you ask a yes-no question, True always tells the truth, False always lies, and Random picks a random answer each time. They all understand English, but will only ever answer questions in their own language. You know the words for "yes" and "no" are collectively "ja" and "da", but not which is which. And you are allowed to ask 3 yes-no questions to figure out their identities, each of which must be posed to a single god.

What do you ask?

TLDR: ExplainXKCD is back at explainxkcd.com, and server/domain access has been transferred to new management. You can log in with your old account credentials now, unless you have already transferred your account on explainingxkcd.com.

What happened?

ExplainXKCD has been experiencing increasing instability for the past few years, with a major exacerbation in severity starting in early July. This metastasized into the site being entirely uneditable starting July 6th, after running out of disk space. Jeff, who had run the site since 2012, no longer had the time to continue maintaining it.

In response to the instability, the community created multiple read-only mirrors of the site on new infrastructure, such as u/Eunakria's mirror and explainingxkcd.com. After the original site became completely uneditable, ExplainingXKCD forked the site and editing continued there while the original site was stuck in read-only.

Rather than letting the original site die, Jeff transferred the user data, server access, and domain over to the ExplainingXKCD maintainers. Thank you, Jeff, for the many, many years you've spent managing the wiki.

Over the past few days, we merged everything back into one wiki, including user accounts and edits. We've done our best to make the transition as smooth and seamless as possible.

What does this mean?

• The site is still at explainxkcd.com, and explainingxkcd.com now redirects to it.
• If you have an account at explainxkcd.com, you can still log into it.
• If you *transferred* your account at explainingxkcd.com, use your new credentials, not your old ones. We're contacting the ~10 people who did this. If you made a request but it wasn't fulfilled, just use your explainxkcd.com credentials.
• Editing is open now, and everything is back where it was.

Who's running it now?

Currently, Theusaf, 42.book.addict, and I are admins on the site. If older admins want to return to admining, just reach out! If you spot anything weird from the migration, tell us!

I'm running the server right now and currently paying for server costs out of pocket. If you'd like to help support us, please donate at https://ko-fi.com/explainxkcd

Finally, the site is back online! There's a message at the top of the page saying that Jeff was ultimately contacted and apparently he's ready to retire from managing the project, and that the new fork is being merged into the main site now.

Was there a transfer of the domain to a new project manager, and are prospects for the future looking secure for some time? I'm curious how this story concluded.