Here’s hoping they migrate to wiki.gg as Terraria’s contributors have a while ago.

  • @Kovu
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    2551 year ago

    please, fandom is one of the worst sites on the internet

    • @subtext
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      1001 year ago

      When the old school RuneScape wiki moved to a self hosted solution it was night and day the quality difference. I’d argue that OSRS (and probably regular RS) have some of the best wikis in gaming.

      https://osrs.wiki

      • @[email protected]
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        161 year ago

        From what I’ve heard, the RS3 wiki was even better, but for sure both are fantastic. Prime examples of how wikis should work. They’re even fully integrated into the game.

      • @[email protected]
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        101 year ago

        Yeah, the RS3 wiki is genuinely fantastic. Daily updates, calculators for virtually every activity, and you can search it directly from the game’s chat box.

    • @OptimalAutomation
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      321 year ago

      Fr. Recently the Satisfactory wiki moved off of fandom and it is already so much better. More wikis need to drop fandom.

    • TheLowestStone
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      111 year ago

      But somehow fextralife is even worse.

    • Neato
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      101 year ago

      I installed Firefox with uBlock Origin on Android primarily because fandom hosts the Forgotten Realms wiki and it’s intolerable.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      The four horsemen of the video game Google search apocalypse are Fandom, IGN, Polygon, and GameRant

    • Chariotwheel
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      71 year ago

      It used to be so decent, but man, it turned to crap. I hardly recognize what it once was.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      @Kovu @simple
      I’ve literally installed an extension to block out fandom results while searching and redirecting to self-hosted fanwikis instead. I hate that ad filled website.

  • @[email protected]
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    1061 year ago

    I’m pleased to hear that they’re moving. Fandom’s had a monopoly on the community-created wiki space for far too long, and it’s had a dire effect on the usability of so many wikis. It’s like they’re trying to make their site everything but a easily usable resource for community wikis.

    On a related note, I highly recommend the “Indie Wiki Buddy” extension for Chrome and Firefox. When non-Fandom/Fextralife wikis are available, it’ll direct you to those instead; and when they’re not, it’ll allow you to view the Fandom wiki through a much more usable mirror.

    • @GroggyKon
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      41 year ago

      If this was available for FF on Android I would be a happy man. Thank you for your comment though. I installed on my laptop!

      • Redjard
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        31 year ago

        Use android dev or a fork like Fennec, set your own addon collection, then install any addon on mobile by adding it to your collection. Bit more annoying than it should be, but once set up allmost as convenient as on desktop

          • Redjard
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            11 year ago

            The developer test version.
            I wanna say originally it was only “Firefox Nightly for Developers”, now “Firefox Beta for Testers” allows it too.

        • Redjard
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          11 year ago

          Some other unofficial Firefox builds enable it too. I recommend Fennec on F-Droid, which has some minor privacy improvements and otherwise mirrors the release build, not the beta build.

        • @GroggyKon
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          11 year ago

          Thanks! I’ll look into that!

  • @elbowdrop
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    871 year ago

    Going to Fandom is like visiting a annoying dying person because they hold the hidden information.

  • @lp0101
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    641 year ago

    Path of Exile did the same thing, going from fandom to https://poewiki.net. And thank god they did, fuck fandom

    • Vengefu1 Tuna
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      161 year ago

      Satisfactory recently left fandom as well.

    • Jon Von Basslake
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      101 year ago

      I’m hoping fallout does as well. Ever since the two fallout wiki merged, I feel like the experience of looking for info on the wiki has been hobbled by fandom.

    • @tesfabpel
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      31 year ago

      Is poewiki just the MediaWiki software (IIRC, the name of the software that runs the official Wikipedia) hosted on their own server? For official wikis it can be feasible, for user-made ones it would surely be more difficult than just using Wikia / fandom / etc…

      • @lp0101
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        61 year ago

        Yup, it is.

        And yeah, it is more difficult than just using wikia/fandom/etc, but it also provides such a better experience. Not all game communities will go to that length, but PoE players are a different breed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • @Photographer
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    621 year ago

    Stardew Valley did the right thing by self hosting a wiki, makes it both official and independent

    • Corhen
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      61 year ago

      Several have, including the old school RuneScape wiki!

      Now there’s two, and one is far more content full

  • Jon Von Basslake
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    551 year ago

    I hope the Fallout and Final Fantasy wikies also migrate out from fandom. Back when they were wikia, they were a lot better. It feels that the search function on fandom is so bad that half the time you’re better off going on google and slapping your search there instead.

  • @Annoyed_Crabby
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    501 year ago

    Lol, they moved out from Reddit and now they moved out from Fandom.

    But their solution could be as simple as make their own wiki.

    • @cley_faye
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      211 year ago

      Imagine if we already had all the tools needed, and all that’s missing is a bit of hosting and a bit of moderation. If only there was a company with some extra cash behind this… haha.

      But it’s seriously time people retake some kind of control over their online activity. All these “services” looking at every occasion to screw their user is getting annoying.

      • @Buddahriffic
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        71 year ago

        Yeah I think people need to separate “popular” from “profitable” in their minds because while I do spend a lot of time on the internet, most of it isn’t for anything I’d be willing to pay for, and if it’s just an excuse to show me ads, I’m not interested.

        We see the shit you’re doing, we don’t like it, and while it might boost some numbers in the short term, it also primes users for the next alternative that won’t just be embraced because it’s new and shiny, but specifically because it’s not the site that used to be great but thought they could abuse their users’ time and attention for greater profits.

        Like at this point, Reddit could do a full 180 and allow 3rd party apps to return, improve their own UX through their site and official apps, and give up on the IPO entirely, but I still won’t be likely to return because all of that just sounds too good to be true and I like it better here than Reddit has been for years.

        I don’t really want to be someone’s product anymore. And if that breaks the whole Internet’s business model, then so be it.

      • @tesfabpel
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        61 year ago

        You can use MediaWiki, the official Wikipedia software (it’s open source)…

        • @cley_faye
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          31 year ago

          Yes, that’s the… joke? Idea?

          The only requirement is hosting hardware and visibility. I’m pretty sure that if MS/Mojang hosted an “official” fan-controlled wiki, they’d just have to announce it and the content would be complete in days.

    • @Saneless
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      151 year ago

      I’m surprised Microsoft hasn’t forced some Teams/SharePoint mandate on them

      • Jon Von Basslake
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        241 year ago

        This isn’t about Mojang. This is about a wiki that is mostly maintained by fans but endorsed by Mojang as the official wiki. If MS tries to force some bullshit Teams or SP solution via Mojang and official branding, the fans will likely abandon it in favor of an unofficial one not hogtied to some BS MS ecosystem.

    • Paradox
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      71 year ago

      That has worked well for valve. TF2 wiki is incredible

    • @LeHappStick
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      It is interesting that there is a wiki of the game in Spanish, probably not official though(it says official… but who really knows).

      wikiminecraft.es

  • pjhenry1216
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    Fandom is barely usable at this point. I feel like they’re just relying on no one wanting to put in the effort of coordinating a migration elsewhere.

    • @EtnaAtsume
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      71 year ago

      It was never usable, to my mind.

        • @EtnaAtsume
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          Really? I wasn’t aware there even had been a buyout since I hated both wikia and fandom and tried to avoid them both, so wasn’t aware of a takeover. I thought they were just two equally-horrible “services”.

  • @baatliwala
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    461 year ago

    I make it a point to actively avoid Fandom. They’re fucking horrible. Luckily for the type of games I’m interested in there’s alternatives available (for eg doomwiki, halopedia, UESP)

  • @NthLink
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    411 year ago

    Fandom has been a pretty terrible experience for awhile now. I hope they find a better home.

  • Nato Boram
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    401 year ago

    uBlock Origin makes it way better, but still, you shouldn’t have to use that in the first place

    • akatsukilevi
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      211 year ago

      This makes fandom much better by outright blocking the entire site and redirecting you to alternatives instead

      If they have a proper wiki that is not a fandom one for the topic, it redirects you there, otherwise it lets you use a proxy like antifandom to access the data without going on the fandom website

  • @assassin_aragorn
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    361 year ago

    The RuneScape wikis did this several years ago, might even be a decade at this point. The actual developer studio, Jagex, helps pay to keep them online and independent because of how damn good they are and how useful it is for everyone, including developers, to reference.

    Microsoft (or Mojang? I don’t know anymore) would be well served to do the same here honestly.

    • Brudder Aaron
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      121 year ago

      The RS Wiki is amazing and should be the shining example for wikis. As shitty as Jagex can be, they did a really awesome thing to help keep it going.

      • @assassin_aragorn
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        11 year ago

        Same. Hell the exact numbers it has for drop rates has spoiled me even comparing to the RS3 wiki.

  • @Vipsu
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    351 year ago

    Just whatever you do, do not use Google docs to share information that belongs to a wiki. That’s is by far the most annoying option and 100 times worse than just having to deal with a fandom wiki.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      I agree, it’ll also make a mess out of your “shared tab” on your drive. Me opening a document from som random doesn’t mean that I want it to bury the documents that has been actively shared with me, from my wife for instance.

  • Cosmic Cleric
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    311 year ago

    “But ever since the acquisition contributors and editors have been uneasy about Fandom’s big money owners applying the nipple clamps and, …”

    The article is worth reading just for that paragraph, if nothing else.

    • Cosmic Cleric
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      281 year ago

      “There is also deep disquiet among wiki editors over a recent controversy with the McDonalds wiki, in which Fandom replaced the existing Grimace page to a paid-for McDonalds advertorial, without the consent or knowledge of the McDonalds wiki editors. No I’m not making this up.”

      Then again, this one came in in a close second.

      • Cosmic Cleric
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        271 year ago

        “42 Minecraft wiki contributors and editors have voted to tell Fandom to fork off”

        And this comes in at number three.