please, fandom is one of the worst sites on the internet
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.
The four horsemen of the video game Google search apocalypse are Fandom, IGN, Polygon, and GameRant
It used to be so decent, but man, it turned to crap. I hardly recognize what it once was.
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.
Going to Fandom is like visiting a annoying dying person because they hold the hidden information.
Fandom is so utterly annoying with those unrelated videos. Really annoying website.
Stardew Valley did the right thing by self hosting a wiki, makes it both official and independent
Several have, including the old school RuneScape wiki!
Now there’s two, and one is far more content full
Fandom wikis are such bloated trash that I will always look elsewhere for info.
I’m an editor for a community wiki that moved off fandom a few years ago to Mireheze. When the recent discussion about Miraheze shutting down happened I briefly inquired about where we would migrate to, expressing my hope to not return to fandom, and was quite thouroghly assured that fandom is not somewhere that would even be considered returning to. I don’t think I’ve had a single positive experience on a fandom wiki ever, or at least not in over 8 years, with issues ranging from intrusive ads, to the comment section pop in making scrolling inconsistent, to even something as simple as it universally looking fucking ugly, I can’t wait for people to leave and am actively cheering on its slow death as a website.
A lot of people are moving to wiki.gg l. It has so many more features
Dead Cells wiki is great there. Far better than fandom
Deep rock galactic wiki looks much better on wiki.gg also
Looks like the add-supported-free-stuff business model really is collapsing.
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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.
Fandom is a huge headache to even navigate, I couldn’t imagine what it’s like to maintain it
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.
Does anyone know how wiki.gg makes money? Wiki hosting side without stable income will just get bought out by bigger player or turn bad like fandom
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“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.
“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.
“42 Minecraft wiki contributors and editors have voted to tell Fandom to fork off”
And this comes in at number three.
I might have to boycott pcgamer too with those annoying popups…
Use the Ublock Origin extension if you aren’t, I’m getting no popups with that.
I am! I still got a newsletter popup thing in the middle of trying to highlight and copy some text.
