User:FaviFake - Revision history

FaviFake at 16:27, 15 May 2026

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FaviFake at 16:14, 15 May 2026

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42.book.addict: /* Your suggestions! What should I ask next? */

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‎Your suggestions! What should I ask next?

FaviFake at 18:02, 23 January 2026

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FaviFake at 18:02, 23 January 2026

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FaviFake at 15:38, 24 December 2025

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FaviFake at 10:59, 13 September 2025

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FaviFake at 10:28, 10 September 2025

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FaviFake: /* Your suggestions! What should I ask next? */ {{Done}}

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‎Your suggestions! What should I ask next?: {{Done}}

FaviFake: replied, 3 Sept 2025, 11:13

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replied, 3 Sept 2025, 11:13

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 '''Re: transcripts'''
 :On Randall's bluesky account, the alt-text on the comics provides a transcript. Why is this not in the api?[[Special:Contributions/174.174.4.79|174.174.4.79]] 17:12, 6 August 2025 (UTC)
 '''What If? Discontinued?'''
 :The last What If? blog article was published on December 6th, 2022. Are there still questions being submitted and will there be new articles in the future? [[User:42.book.addict|<span style="font:11pt Cormorant Garamond"><span style="color:#4A86A6">tor</span><span style="color:#C0728D">i :3</span></span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict|<span style="font:8pt Cormorant Garamond"><span style="color:#7E7E7E">talk </span><span style="color:#C0728D">to </span><span style="color:#4A86A6">me!</span></span>]]</sup> 18:57, 14 May 2026 (UTC)
 ::I presume that some time was dedicated towards making the 10th Anniversary edition and some more time on uploading all articles onto YouTube, but it would be great if we could look into his head and see a rough timeline at the very least. [[User:42.book.addict|<span style="font:11pt Cormorant Garamond"><span style="color:#4A86A6">tor</span><span style="color:#C0728D">i :3</span></span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict|<span style="font:8pt Cormorant Garamond"><span style="color:#7E7E7E">talk </span><span style="color:#C0728D">to </span><span style="color:#4A86A6">me!</span></span>]]</sup> 18:57, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

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 {{notice|<big>Since Randall answered my latest questions, I sent him another list of questions, but he hasn't replied as of 24/1/26</big>}}
+{{notice|<big>I don't think he'll ever reply again :(</big>}}
 '''Hey everyone! I got in touch with [[Randall Munroe]] himself!! Here's what you need to know.'''
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 ==Your suggestions! What should I ask next?==
-Remember, he said only simple questions. I'm assuming he'd like questions similar to the ones he replied to (short, sweet, no explaining needed), or questions that shouldn't require him to explain his comic too much. '''What's something relatively important that we don't know and that only Randall can answer?'''{{notice|
+Remember, he said only simple questions. I'm assuming he'd like questions similar to the ones he replied to (short, sweet, no explaining needed), or questions that shouldn't require him to explain his comic too much. '''What's something relatively important that we don't know and that only Randall can answer?'''{{notice|<big>I don't think he'll ever reply again :(</big>}}

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	:On Randall's bluesky account, the alt-text on the comics provides a transcript. Why is this not in the api?[[Special:Contributions/174.174.4.79\|174.174.4.79]] 17:12, 6 August 2025 (UTC)		:On Randall's bluesky account, the alt-text on the comics provides a transcript. Why is this not in the api?[[Special:Contributions/174.174.4.79\|174.174.4.79]] 17:12, 6 August 2025 (UTC)
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		+	'''What If? Discontinued?'''
		+	:The last What If? blog article was published on December 6th, 2022. Are there still questions being submitted and will there be new articles in the future? [[User:42.book.addict\|<span style="font:11pt Cormorant Garamond"><span style="color:#4A86A6">tor</span><span style="color:#C0728D">i :3</span></span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict\|<span style="font:8pt Cormorant Garamond"><span style="color:#7E7E7E">talk </span><span style="color:#C0728D">to </span><span style="color:#4A86A6">me!</span></span>]]</sup> 18:57, 14 May 2026 (UTC)
		+	::I presume that some time was dedicated towards making the 10th Anniversary edition and some more time on uploading all articles onto YouTube, but it would be great if we could look into his head and see a rough timeline at the very least. [[User:42.book.addict\|<span style="font:11pt Cormorant Garamond"><span style="color:#4A86A6">tor</span><span style="color:#C0728D">i :3</span></span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict\|<span style="font:8pt Cormorant Garamond"><span style="color:#7E7E7E">talk </span><span style="color:#C0728D">to </span><span style="color:#4A86A6">me!</span></span>]]</sup> 18:57, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

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-{{notice|<big>Randall answered my latest questions, so I sent him another list of questions! He hasn't replied as of 24/1/26</big></big>}}
+{{notice|<big>Since Randall answered my latest questions, I sent him another list of questions, but he hasn't replied as of 24/1/26</big>}}
 '''Hey everyone! I got in touch with [[Randall Munroe]] himself!! Here's what you need to know.'''

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-{{notice|<big><big>UPDATE: Randall answered my latest questions, so I sent him another list of questions! He hasn't replied as of 24/12/25</big></big>}}
+{{notice|<big>Randall answered my latest questions, so I sent him another list of questions! He hasn't replied as of 24/1/26</big></big>}}
 '''Hey everyone! I got in touch with [[Randall Munroe]] himself!! Here's what you need to know.'''

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 '''Hey everyone! I got in touch with [[Randall Munroe]] himself!! Here's what you need to know.'''
-{{notice|<big><big>UPDATE: He answered my latest questions, so I sent him another list of questions!</big></big>}}
+{{notice|<big><big>UPDATE: He answered my latest questions, so I sent him another list of questions! He hasn't replied as of 13/9</big></big>}}
 <big>{{TOC}}</big>I emailed him to ask for the official release date of [[36: Scientists]] (see [[36: Scientists#Trivia|the trivia for more info]]). Surprisingly, he got back to me! You can read the full conversation below. I'll keep you posted if I receive more messages! You can [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:FaviFake&action=watch add this page to your watchlist] to keep track of it. I haven't received his explicit permission to feature his messages in full, so initially i hid his messages. I've now published the contents of his emails, since he hasn't responded to my request to make them public. My emails have not been altered, but in the copy-pasting, links have been removed. These emails were all hyperlinked, I now added back only a few links.

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	'''Hey everyone! I got in touch with [[Randall Munroe]] himself!! Here's what you need to know.'''		'''Hey everyone! I got in touch with [[Randall Munroe]] himself!! Here's what you need to know.'''

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-'''Why were the first comics [[LiveJournal|uploaded seemingly at random]]? --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 21:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
+{{Done}} '''Why were the first comics [[LiveJournal|uploaded seemingly at random]]? --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 21:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
 :Initially, randall posted his comics to LiveJournal ([[LiveJournal|learn more here]]). The new xkcd website opened on January 1, 2006, and the backlog of 41 comics from LiveJournal from [[1: Barrel - Part 1]] to [[44: Love]] was transferred on the same day, but in a completely different order. The only comic that has the same number on both sites is [[3: Island (sketch)]], while all the other comics were uploaded seemingly at random. Also, only eleven of the original comic titles were reused of the new site, and even among the last eleven comics posted on both sites, only six used the same title.
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-'''[[24]]'s original caption claimed to have more to it, but the link isn't archived. Is there more? [[user talk:lett‪herebedarklight|youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk]] 01:23, 4 March 2025 (UTC)'''
+{{Done}} '''[[24]]'s original caption claimed to have more to it, but the link isn't archived. Is there more? [[user talk:lett‪herebedarklight|youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk]] 01:23, 4 March 2025 (UTC)'''
 ::I wonder if he'd want to talk about it, since he's now deleted his LiveJournal reply regarding the broken link. But would be easy to answer if there wasn't more. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 18:08, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
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 {{Done}}'''What was/is the purpose of https://xkcd.com/yes/ and https://xkcd.com/no/? [[user talk:lett‪herebedarklight|youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk]] 03:32, 5 March 2025 (UTC)'''
 ::Wait what? I've never seen these pages before! Are there any others? --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 21:30, 8 March 2025 (UTC)
 :::When I learnt of them, I tried various others (e.g. ".../maybe"), to no avail. But maybe there's something non-Yes/Noish that goes along with those two, thematically. So far, though, I've not worked out what they might be. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.33.252|162.158.33.252]] 00:08, 9 March 2025 (UTC)
 ::::I looked into it! There are other pages, but the xkcd forum link is broken and not archived. (See more info on the two pages, i just created, [[NO]] and [[YES]].) --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 12:33, 9 March 2025 (UTC)
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 '''Why did you rename comic #[[786]]'s image to ''exoplanets_2010.png'' instead of uploading comic #[[1071]]'s image as ''exoplanets_2012.png''?''' --[[User:Winter1760|Winter1760]] ([[User talk:Winter1760|talk]]) 17:11, 5 April 2025 (UTC)
 :Is [[2638: Extended NFPA Hazard Diamond]] supposed to represent anything at all? [[User:Bb777|me, hi]] ([[User talk:Bb777|talk]]) 17:57, 5 April 2025 (UTC)
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 :: Seems to just be a mail drop, presumably one he uses for official xkcd business. [https://www.legalzoom.com/business/business-operations/lz-virtual-mail-overview.html] [[Special:Contributions/137.25.230.78|137.25.230.78]] 07:19, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
 :::Agreed. Also, if it weren't a mail drop, we really shouldn't know the answer to this question. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 08:42, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
 '''What was channel.html and channel.txt?'''
 :For a few years there was a hidden subdomain under xkcd.com/channel.html that provided you with about 600kb of "junk" data  but seemed to be organized in some information carrying way (obeyed Zipf's law.) What was it????? this mystery is haunting me so much i wrote this on a mobile device. [[Special:Contributions/2600:387:f:7716::9|2600:387:f:7716::9]] 00:13, 4 August 2025 (UTC)
 '''Revised comics'''
 :On comic [[851]], he linked to a newer version in the header, saying "I don't get do-overs," but later, in [[1365]] for example, mistakes were fixed and revised. Is there anything that led to this, and can 851 be replaced with the updated version?[[Special:Contributions/174.174.4.79|174.174.4.79]] 17:12, 6 August 2025 (UTC)
 '''Re: transcripts'''
 :On Randall's bluesky account, the alt-text on the comics provides a transcript. Why is this not in the api?[[Special:Contributions/174.174.4.79|174.174.4.79]] 17:12, 6 August 2025 (UTC)