It’s funny, many wikis moved off then-wikia to Curse’s Gamepedia family and then they just merged back again, kinda sad :(
Fandom is unusable garbage.
Fandom is so utterly annoying with those unrelated videos. Really annoying website.
Fandom is unusable garbage.
I use Pi-Hole and never noticed it was a crappy site. It’s always been flawless for me.
Even with ad blockers fandom is garbage
100% AGREED.
As a matter of fact, there are opportunities here for other companies that don’t have general wikis for gamers to create a better hosting service. They have not done this and I don’t understand why. Steam could easily do this, I think. Just imagine Steam creating a wiki for games, with links to the best guides, etc. It would be a modern version of GameFaqs (which still exists) but improved. When I do a search on a game and I get Fandom in my results, I tend to skip over it and look for something better without ad bullshit. I would think that other gamers tend to do the same thing. I mean, it’s that bad, even for a user without a registered account (like me).
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.
The Independent Fallout Wiki is a thing. I can’t vouch for its value though; I haven’t really used it.
Even Wikia was a bloated mess back in the days. Fandom made it worse.
Fandom brings back so many memories. I remember when they used to have active chats. It was like discord before discord was around.
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.
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!
You can install any extension you want, but it’s a bit of a process. https://www.androidpolice.com/install-add-on-extension-mozilla-firefox-android/
Thanks! I’ll look into that!
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.
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
What do you mean by “android dev”?
The developer test version.
I wanna say originally it was only “Firefox Nightly for Developers”, now “Firefox Beta for Testers” allows it too.
Exactly this.
When a company can’t expand its market share anymore they will make the product cheaper, worse and more expensive.
For tech this means filling the product with bloat, upping the prices for consumers, and lowering their payouts to creators (subcontractors).
What’s wrong with Spotify?
Did I miss the reference to Spotify?
The image shows spotify
uBlock Origin makes it way better, but still, you shouldn’t have to use that in the first place
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
Does Microsoft do anything there? Just wondering if they have any editor or something or all are non related to Mojang/Microsoft.
Fandom has been a pretty terrible experience for awhile now. I hope they find a better home.
They should move to Neocities
Looks like the add-supported-free-stuff business model really is collapsing.
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As aptly explained by writer Cory Doctorow:
Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
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Unfortunately, for most technology startups there are exactly two ways to pay salaries to the developers: getting investors (which lead to the exact cycle that I explained earlier) or paywalling the site up the wazoo (which leads to the community being necessarily smaller than it could have been otherwise).
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And even with no capitalism involved in the equation, how do we convince the government to get taxpayers to foot the bill for something as mundane as an image hosting service? Especially in an environment where even art and education are being severely restricted in cash flow due to them being “non-essential services”?
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If ad companies would be paid according to customer conversion rate instead of how many ads they spam everywhere, it would collapse within a financial quarter.
Thinking that people support a brand or product that constantly annoys them is next-level stupid, but it’s their main strategy. Google’s conversion rate is less than 4% and instead of realizing that spamming trillions of ads on every site is causing that abysmal rate, they double down and get off to bigger “reach”.
Also, Google lied to customers of their TrueView ads and just presented people muted autoplay ads instead. Here’s an analysis about that.
https://adalytics.io/blog/invalid-google-video-partner-trueview-ads
tl;dr the only one benefitting from ads is Google.
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The only good fandom wiki out there is the Terraria wiki. Change my mind.
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Dustloop is one of the greatest video game wiki
I think you might be right. Both are getting edited but gg more often this year than fandom.
The OldSchool Runescape and RuneScape 3 wikis are hands down the best wikis out there. They abandoned fandom years ago.
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