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Re:TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghett... by koolba on Thursday October 12, 2017 @10:06PM (#15462807)
Not GP but probably: “Here be dragons”
Re:TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghett... by taw55 on Friday October 13, 2017 @12:44PM (#15467248)
I actually did that once.

It was a wordpress site for a company written by some 16 year old intern. Terribly fun. No version management. The main folder had multiple older copies of itself in seemingly random subfolders. It went deep. The CSS was stored partially in CSS files, of which there were 20 (!) loaded from the theme folder, partially in one of the 40+ plugins used (not an exageration). But there was also plenty of CSS in the templates, the database and seemingly random third party servers. The favicon was 20MB large. It used like 4 plugins for “custom fields” all of which had infected large swathes of the database, and all of which did... something. Much like the root folder had nested copies of itself there was something similar going on in there... I simply didn’t bother by the time I understood what the hell was going on. The templates were basically this premium theme of “customized” php, the fun part was that in some page templates it basically rendered a bunch of different pages inside the template (the guy apparently didn’t understand the concept of closing tags, yet somehow made it work. It was incomprehensible.) and then used custom css to hide the pages that shouldn’t be visible. Basically the entire thing was some satanic equillibrium of bugs cancelling eachother out.

It was a work of art.

Re:TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghett... by quickben on Friday October 13, 2017 @05:08PM (#15469247)
> "The favicon was 20MB large"

Well, that's actually impressive :D