diff --git a/UI/CustomGenerator/SharePanel.ts b/UI/CustomGenerator/SharePanel.ts
index db479ecd8..bc30696cb 100644
--- a/UI/CustomGenerator/SharePanel.ts
+++ b/UI/CustomGenerator/SharePanel.ts
@@ -22,31 +22,11 @@ export default class SharePanel extends UIElement {
             "<h2>Share</h2>",
             "Share the following link with friends:<br/>",
             new VariableUiElement(liveUrl.map(url => `<a href='${url}' target="_blank">${url}</a>`)),
-            "<h2>Publish on OSM Wiki</h2>",
-            "In the list of 'hacks upon hacks to make MapComplete work', it is now possible to put the JSON-file onto a Wikipage*.<br/>" +
-            "This is a <i>very stable</i> and <i>very well-tested</i> solution. Using wikipages as source control! What could possibly go wrong???? /s<br/><br/>",
-
-            "Why to publish the layout as a wikipage?",
-            "<ul>",
-            ...["If something breaks, it can be fixed centrally",
-                "If someone has a remark about your preset, the talk page can be used to point this out and discuss the preset",
-                "In case of a grave error, everyone can step in to fix the prest"].map(li => `<li>${li}</li>`),
-            "</ul>",
-
-            "In order to make this work:",
-            "<ol>",
-
-            ...[`Create a new page on the OSM-wiki, e.g. <a href='https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/${proposedName}' target="_blank">${proposedName}</a>`,
-                "Click 'create page'",
-                "Type <span class='literal-code'>&lt;nowiki&gt;</span>, a few newlines and <span class='literal-code'>&lt;/nowiki&gt;</span>",
-                "Copy the json configuration from the 'save-tab', paste it between the 'nowiki'-tags in the Wiki",
-                "Click 'save' to save the wiki page",
-                "Share the link with the url parameter <span class='literal-code'>userlayout=wiki:YOURWIKIPAGE</span>, e.g. " +
-                `<a href='./custom?userlayout=${proposedNameEnc}' target='_blank'>https://${window.location.host}?userlayout=${proposedNameEnc}</a>`
-            ].map(li => `<li>${li}</li>`),
-
-            "</ol>",
-            "(* This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)",
+            "<h2>Publish on some website</h2>",
+            
+            "It is possible to load a JSON-file from the wide internet, but you'll need some (public CORS-enabled) server.",
+            `Put the raw json online, and use ${window.location.host}?userlayout=https://<your-url-here>.json`,
+            "Please note: it used to be possible to load from the wiki - this is not possible anymore due to technical reasons.",
             "</div>"
         ]);
     }
diff --git a/index.ts b/index.ts
index 48eb22d35..0a912a38d 100644
--- a/index.ts
+++ b/index.ts
@@ -64,36 +64,24 @@ document.getElementById('centermessage').innerText = '';
 document.getElementById("decoration-desktop").remove();
 
 
-if (layoutFromBase64.startsWith("wiki:")) {
-    console.log("Downloading map theme from the wiki");
-    const themeName = layoutFromBase64.substr("wiki:".length);
-    new FixedUiElement(`Downloading ${themeName} from the wiki...`)
+if (layoutFromBase64.startsWith("http")) {
+    const link = layoutFromBase64;
+    console.log("Downloading map theme from ", link);
+    new FixedUiElement(`Downloading the theme from the <a href="${link}">link</a>...`)
         .AttachTo("centermessage");
-    const cleanUrl = `https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/${themeName}`;
-    const url = `https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/` + cleanUrl; // ~NOT~ VERY SAFE AND HACKER-PROOF!
-    // We use cors-anywhere because the wiki from openstreetmap is locked-down :(
-    /*/
-    const url = cleanUrl; // MUCH SAFER! //*/
 
     $.ajax({
-        url: url,
+        url: link,
         success: function (data) {
-            // Hacky McHackFace has been working here. This'll probably break in the future
-            const startTrigger = "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">";
-            const start = data.indexOf(startTrigger);
-            data = data.substr(start,
-                data.indexOf("<div class=\"printfooter\">") - start)
-            data = data.substr(0, data.lastIndexOf("</p>"))
-            data = data.substr(data.indexOf("<p>") + 3)
-            console.log(data)
+   
             try {
                 const parsed = JSON.parse(data);
                 // Overwrite the id to the wiki:value
-                parsed.id = layoutFromBase64.replace(/[: \/]/g, '-')
+                parsed.id = link;
                 const layout = new LayoutConfig(parsed);
                 InitUiElements.InitAll(layout, layoutFromBase64, testing, layoutFromBase64, btoa(data));
             } catch (e) {
-                new FixedUiElement(`<a href="${cleanUrl}">${themeName}</a> is invalid:<br/>${e}`)
+                new FixedUiElement(`<a href="${link}">${link}</a> is invalid:<br/>${e}<br/> <a href='https://${window.location.host}/'>Go back</a>")`)
                     .SetClass("clickable")
                     .AttachTo("centermessage");
                 console.error("Could not parse the text", data)
@@ -102,7 +90,7 @@ if (layoutFromBase64.startsWith("wiki:")) {
         },
     }).fail((_, textstatus, error) => {
         console.error("Could not download the wiki theme:", textstatus, error)
-        new FixedUiElement(`<a href="${cleanUrl}">${themeName}</a> is invalid:<br/>Could not download - wrong URL?<br/>` +
+        new FixedUiElement(`<a href="${link}">${link}</a> is invalid:<br/>Could not download - wrong URL?<br/>` +
             error +
             "<a href='https://${window.location.host}/'>Go back</a>")
             .SetClass("clickable")