Haven’t watched the video, but pretty much fandom is just shady and a brutal user design. Have you tried using it on mobile? 90% of the screen is covered with ads. Even after you close them, the ads pop up again. They also embed streams from theur Twitch so they can inflate their viewers and make more money that way. Their website is shitty enough to waste even more web browser resources on that. They are greedy af.
To get an idea of a good unofficial wiki, take a look at the terraria one. It is clean, informative, decent navigation, and user friendly.
Speaking of Terraria wikis, thought I’d put it out there to stop using fandom for Terraria. While their wiki on Fandom is indeed better than most, wiki.gg is the official (and imo far superior) alternative. The fandom wiki is no longer up to date, and the longer people use fandom for Terraria, the longer it will take for the official one to start showing up first in search results.
Edit: actually, I believe I misremembered. I don’t think terraria’s fandom page is outdated, so that’s more of a personal preference choice. Rather, what I was remembering is that several of the big mods like Thorium and Calamity switched over to wiki.gg and their pages are indeed outdated on fandom. I do still believe the official wiki is a better experience and recommend switching though.
Unfortunately not everyone uses them, and we shouldn’t ignore shitty business practices just because we personally avoid them.
Regardless, it doesn’t matter if you use an adblocker or not. Their website layout is fucking horrendous and 80% of your screen is completely wasted.
I mean, take a look at that very Fandom page on a full-screen browser. Anything highlighted red is shit I don’t give a single fuck about. Now take a look at exactly the same page on AntiFandom (without an adblocker). Fandom is incredibly wasteful of space, autoplays videos and streams on their website, completely fills their websites with ads, and doesn’t give a damn about the user. The sooner we all collectively drop it for better alternatives (like Wiki.gg), the better.
Edit: forgot to mention, it’s also basically impossible to close a fandom wiki. They won’t even let you leave. You could stop updating it and move to a different site, sure, but as Terraria has shown, even officially announcing your new wiki isn’t enough to become the top search result even after nearly 2 years. Meaning people will keep visiting fandom and keep seeing outdated information all the while.
In the meantime, I’d recommend anybody that ends up on fandom on the PC to install an extension like LibRedirect to automatically redirect fandom links to breezewiki or antifandom.
A good summary https://youtu.be/qcfuA_UAz3I
Any chance you have a shorter summary than a 22 minute video? Guessing it could be tldw-ed
Haven’t watched the video, but pretty much fandom is just shady and a brutal user design. Have you tried using it on mobile? 90% of the screen is covered with ads. Even after you close them, the ads pop up again. They also embed streams from theur Twitch so they can inflate their viewers and make more money that way. Their website is shitty enough to waste even more web browser resources on that. They are greedy af.
To get an idea of a good unofficial wiki, take a look at the terraria one. It is clean, informative, decent navigation, and user friendly.
Speaking of Terraria wikis, thought I’d put it out there to stop using fandom for Terraria. While their wiki on Fandom is indeed better than most, wiki.gg is the official (and imo far superior) alternative.
The fandom wiki is no longer up to date, and the longer people use fandom for Terraria, the longer it will take for the official one to start showing up first in search results.Edit: actually, I believe I misremembered. I don’t think terraria’s fandom page is outdated, so that’s more of a personal preference choice. Rather, what I was remembering is that several of the big mods like Thorium and Calamity switched over to wiki.gg and their pages are indeed outdated on fandom. I do still believe the official wiki is a better experience and recommend switching though.
I’ve never seen an ad on fandom. On mobile or otherwise.
Do you not use adblockers…?
Unfortunately not everyone uses them, and we shouldn’t ignore shitty business practices just because we personally avoid them.
Regardless, it doesn’t matter if you use an adblocker or not. Their website layout is fucking horrendous and 80% of your screen is completely wasted. I mean, take a look at that very Fandom page on a full-screen browser. Anything highlighted red is shit I don’t give a single fuck about. Now take a look at exactly the same page on AntiFandom (without an adblocker). Fandom is incredibly wasteful of space, autoplays videos and streams on their website, completely fills their websites with ads, and doesn’t give a damn about the user. The sooner we all collectively drop it for better alternatives (like Wiki.gg), the better.
Edit: forgot to mention, it’s also basically impossible to close a fandom wiki. They won’t even let you leave. You could stop updating it and move to a different site, sure, but as Terraria has shown, even officially announcing your new wiki isn’t enough to become the top search result even after nearly 2 years. Meaning people will keep visiting fandom and keep seeing outdated information all the while.
In the meantime, I’d recommend anybody that ends up on fandom on the PC to install an extension like LibRedirect to automatically redirect fandom links to breezewiki or antifandom.