Don't understand why people view the web without adblockers in 2023. Fandom websites, with adblockers, look and function perfectly fine.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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Fandom is unusable without a ad blocker and javascript blocker, and is barely usable with
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.
Yes, finally! Ever since the minecraft wiki moved away from gamepedia, it's been absolutely terrible. I avoid Fandom at all costs.
Why not do what the dwarf fortress wiki did, it looks just like wikipedia.
Fandom also uses Mediawiki, like Wikipedia.
And it's free too. Why people try to reinvent the wiki is beyond me.
Good. Any wiki dumping Fandom is worth commending.
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.
They don't mention this, but Minecraft isn't the first to abandon the shitty fandom.com platform. Zelda wiki left Fandom last fall, the Star Trek Online wiki jumped ship in February (sorry for the Reddit link, there's no article on STO), and the Fallout wiki left too. Evidently there are more game wikis that got fed up with Fandom and set up shop somewhere else, but there's no press on that, at least that I could find. It's definitely part of a trend, and people need to aware of that.
Edit: others have commented about the exodus of other game wikis. Yep, definitely a trend that isn't being reported
PoE moved away from fandom and created their own fan based site, and it's so much better now
First they left Reddit; now they're leaving Fandom. Do they believe they're too big to be overshadowed by Google algorithms?
Wikis don't really need too much SEO though. If there's one good wiki, chances are it'll pop up on the first page somewhere when you google "minecraft [game-specific term]". And from then on you know to use that wiki, and just go directly to their website instead of googling.
Terraria's wiki has been running independently of Famdom for a while now, so has Paradox's, Guild Wars 2's, etc etc.
Minecraft? It probably is.
Fandom has been complete and utter shit for years now.
Better late than never though.
They could try Miraheze. It’s a small nonprofit that doesn’t put any ads on the site.
Has to be some way of paying the bills too, though.