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Okay, NOW is this going to work? I hope so... I'm not going to mess with the normal forums yet.

This is a test message. I clicked "Reply", "Submit", "Back to thread", and "Refresh thread".

Wow! As I was making my own test reply, Jacky720 did, leaving the Edit Conflict message to appear!
Well, one reason to have subforums, as if we get enough people, the odds of two people attempting to make a reply at the same time is huge. Perhaps a thread set for each topic? And probably more focus on keeping on-topic? We can always link to a new thread for a change of topic. Though then we'll have to deal with what to do when someone tries to make two of the same forum.
I might just make a Round 4 thread just for that. Except I'll make it twice, since we're testing the effects of making two forums with the same name.. That is, in case someone wants to post about a topic that **there's already a forum for**.
Which is invariably going to happen if this catches on with enough members of the Undertale Wiki, given enough time.
Anyways, let's see if this works for more. I'll make this post, then refresh the post immediately after. If we're right, then the issue is that my bugged posts were in fact not bugged posts at all, they just didn't appear because the page was never updated.
So let's see if I can make this a legit post, rather than a buggy one.
--22:21, January 28, 2020 (UTC)

I'm legitimately hoping that that *doesn't* happen. Here's why:
I run this thing with DynamicPageList, a MediaWiki extension that lets me search the wiki for all pages matching certain criteria. But it's VERY server-intensive. That's why it usually just uses cached results, and that's why there has GOT to be a better way.

..Right. That's probably the real reason why these kinds of forums were abandoned. And that means there'll probably be problems even WITHOUT someone trying to make the same page twice.
Problems that we'll need to fix.
It's probably going to happen. Remember Murphy's Law?
..No, the REAL Murphy's Law, not the fictional one you see on TV. That one's actually Finagle's Law.
I'm talking about this one.
"If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it."
Which is precisely why one should design it so that you simply **can't** do it incorrectly.
So once people flee over to this wiki, there might just be TWO people making a thread about how Chara's not evil. There's already THREE of them on the Undertale Wiki, though they fortunately have different names.
Note (that I discovered PRIOR to posting this message, but after writing everything above this):There's actually many more. And a thread literally just called "Chara".
They all are phrased differently, though, so that wouldn't be an issue.
Actually, I should probably see if I can find two threads on the Undertale Wiki that have the same title. (As in, the **exact** same title. There would only be an issue if two threads have the **exact** same title.) Maybe there's an actual good chance of it not happening.
Fortunately, one could simply revert it. But it's probably better if we have a way of stopping it from happening at all.
But before we do that, we should start by focusing on the more fundamental issue, that can manifest even WITHOUT two people making the same thread.
Note 2 (As before, based on ideas I thought of AFTER writing everything above): Perhaps you meant you hoped people won't flee to this wiki.. Period. But people probably WILL come over here considering the lack of Discussions, though I'd expect only actual theorists to do so, with the forum games people probably sticking around for Discussions. Then again, it's likely that only a small subset of theorists would join this wiki, since only a few of us know it-I'd expect other people to try and find other workarounds, maybe they'd move to Reddit... Maybe they'd find a workaround with Discord.. Or maybe they'll set up their OWN workaround on the actual Undertale Wiki.
We really don't know.
--TheHumanAmbassador (talk) 22:52, January 28, 2020 (UTC)

By the way, you don't actually need to click the signature button. It's working fine now- you double-signed that time.

Oh! No need to sign? Okay, then.
Already better than vanilla DPL Forums. You've done better than **Fandom themselves**.
TheHumanAmbassador (talk) 23:10, January 28, 2020 (UTC)