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This is an offshoot of this forum post that got no reply, because HotCat marginally worked on UCP (addition worked on most pages, subtraction did not) but works exactly 0% on FandomDesktop: https://dev.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000003077

Any way to use HotCat on UCP? | FandomMay or may not be the purview of this wiki, but:…dev.fandom.com

I really miss HotCat--I used it a lot on the wiki(s) I admin back before UCP (when pulling an old version of it from Wikimedia Commons worked perfectly) and I decided to see if porting it to FandomDesktop js would get it working the way it used to work (instead of the half-working it was on UCP Oasis)... but it doesn't work at all. Maybe the fix is simple... but maybe considering the way the category... object? is on FandomDesktop... maybe it's more difficult.

Point is, the 1.19-compatible version I was pulling from Commons stopped working on UCP (or rather it caused severe breakage), the more modern version I had hoped to use on UCP only half worked and now it no-works, with FandomDesktop. XP

I want to use HotCat, but it's looking like vanilla HotCat is no longer compatible with Wikia. :-/

May or may not be the purview of this wiki, but: I was using (somewhat frequently, so it's a felt loss!) a version of HotCat pulled straight from Wikimedia Commons that was compatible with 1.19 (this version I think, but I might be a revision or two off: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Gadget-HotCat.js&oldid=126283278 ) before UCP came, and it worked swimmingly.

However, UCP necessitated me trying to use the latest version, from here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Gadget-HotCat.js&oldid=479584773 (in fact, using the old version results in severe breakage; it was causing myriad bugs I didn't realize were its fault, on one wiki I added it to), which... half works? It can add categories just fine but once they're added, they can't be removed via HotCat, either because the actual category list on the page isn't the one HotCat attaches itself to (it creates a second list box above the real one, which is empty after HotCat refreshes itself) or, say, there's no category list (other than the empty duplicate one), only the "in: [category]" thing at the top of the page.

Maybe this is simple to fix and I just haven't figured it out, or maybe it's unfixable... but I figure: What's the harm in asking?