mission #
This site was created to help organize the Desolation community into doing useful stuff. (Really, Minky isn't going to be around forever.) Basically started as a 'easy' link to the Discord, the Discord grew and more stuff was needed to be put up like Builds and Guides, which are also on the Discord.. but in Discord's famously 'easy to view' ability. The old site became bloated and virtaully destroyed by system updates, and for ages i've just given up on it.
A site also allows some flair, some artistic creativeness with how its all displayed. And Minky's pranks at April Fools is apparently one of Deso's best things!
Some quick possibly relevant FAQ's! #
- Why does the symbol for Focus look weird.
Good question, I had to make it by hand and not really happy with it. Do you know what weapon hasn't been usable by other classes via Elite/Weapon specializations? Thats right, Focus. Theres no icon for it in the API.
- why do build pages look terrible on mobile/tablet?
I protyped the layout in flexbox at the last minute, it can do mobile/tablet but the CSS isn't in yet. Still fixing.
- Why doesn't Anet news posts have pictures?
I've not worked out how to pull pictures in the feed from content:encoded into pages yet, bit of a pain when the parser doesn't support that, and they are randomly Youtube links instead of pictures. Currently they are embedded in post content, which this framework struggles with.
- Why does Deso suck so much when its permamently full?
Why does Very High population Baruch Bay, when not linked, have multiple zergs on each map all the time? Anet hates us, and the pop caculations are broken. Recently we dropped to High after a major population shift across all servers, with very few players joining Deso, its going to be High while we fight Very High servers with better coverage.
- Can I help with Guides and Builds? Sure, either add a build or guide on our Discord, or submit it at our site's [example github] (https://github.com/DeaJae/Desolation-site), you will find examples of the .md files our guides and builds use as will as the current filters.