Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-4544033-20150927014120/@comment-1738746-20150930015130

The Rim of the Sky wrote: SuperSajuuk wrote: The blank page glitch is well documented on Wikia, because it happens everywhere. The edit procedure you performed is called a Null Edit and usually solves most caching problems that occur on Wikia. There is a button on the edit dropdown (the little arrow next to the Edit button) that automates the process. Sometimes it's just worse on certain week's and it's usually due to the upcoming technical updates. Nothing to worry about, a simple null edit will fix it.

Saying that, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been having several server related issues in the past week (eg: servers going down completely for a while, taking sites like Netflix down). I suspect Wikia is hosting some CDN content on AWS, which is causing some glitches. I often use Null Edit when I update a photo or template in order to see how it looks, without having an edit that changes nothing logged. Quite a handy tool if you ask me. If you do an edit that changes nothing, it doesn't show up in the history log either :) The Null Edit button is just faster/more convenient.