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Citing "lack of transparency from Fandom [...] loss of features [...] and toxic company culture."

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[–] worldstitcher@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Satisfactory moved its wiki away from Fandom as well. They use wiki.gg now, which seems a lot more like gamepedia used to be before the fandom enshittification.

[–] Ggtfmhy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I’m always baffled when I see people post links to the Fandom site for Skyrim rather than UESP my beloved. Community-run, for passion and not for profit. The internet of yore, today.

Simpler “digital newspaper”-type interfaces beat all the video-auto playing nonsense any day of the week. Fandom’s interfaces are genuinely baffling to use, who approved all of this visual cramming of information I didn’t ask for? You know I won’t randomly start enjoying any of it right?

Fandom’s Steam key store, Fanatical (used to be called Bundle Stars), is still pretty good, although I wish I didn’t feel like spending money there directly funds those autoplaying cancer videos.

[–] SaltySalamander@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Don't understand why people view the web without adblockers in 2023. Fandom websites, with adblockers, look and function perfectly fine.

[–] V_@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Fandom is unusable without a ad blocker and javascript blocker, and is barely usable with

[–] artillect@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, finally! Ever since the minecraft wiki moved away from gamepedia, it's been absolutely terrible. I avoid Fandom at all costs.

[–] Skray@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fandom acquired Gamepedia a few years ago.

This was a big thing with the WoWwiki, they were on Fandom with WoWwiki and moved to Gamepedia with WoWpedia to get away from Fandom, and then Gamepedia got bought out so they ended up where they started.

Seems now the only options are Fandom, Fextralife or self-hosted.

[–] MoogleMaestro@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Self hosting is probably a good idea for something as ubiquitous as Minecraft. The problem is that Fandom completely dominates the google search results game. It's a real problem when looking up information on games since fandom is almost always the first result and always has pretty crappy information. (I.E. look up any street fighter character for a specific game. Fandom shows up first, but lacks basic move information, strategies or pros\cons. You generallywant SRK wiki or dustloop for anime games in reality, but google is unable to determine the actual quality of a given source it seems.)

[–] Saganastic@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not do what the dwarf fortress wiki did, it looks just like wikipedia.

[–] tal@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fandom also uses Mediawiki, like Wikipedia.

[–] Rottcodd@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fandom has been complete and utter shit for years now.

Better late than never though.

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[–] Dive@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PoE moved away from fandom and created their own fan based site, and it's so much better now

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[–] DarkErmac@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They could try Miraheze. It’s a small nonprofit that doesn’t put any ads on the site.

[–] tal@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Has to be some way of paying the bills too, though.