Vampire Survivors devs launch official wiki "free of ads, banners, and all of the junk that gets in your way"
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Best thing that happened to path of exile too, the devs provide the wiki platform for the community
Very based
Warframe just did it too. Fantastic move.
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Best thing that happened to path of exile too, the devs provide the wiki platform for the community
Very based
Same thing happened with minecraft.wiki too, people finally got fed up with fandom's bullshit
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shouldnt this be built in the game anyway?
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I avoid using fandom like it’s contagious. It’s so cluttered, when my blockers on images don’t load half the time. It’s a slow site.
It’s really the worst, I’d rather scrub through a YouTube video to find the answer I’m looking for rather than go to a fandom site.
I've often been like "I don't know why people complain about Fandom, this is fine". And then I saw what the site looks like without uBlock. Sweet merciful heavens. Hey, there's some ads. Let's cram some ads in the ads. Some prime blank space? Shove some annoying video things in there. Autoplaying. See that navigation bar over there? Let's make it pointless. (If you come to the article via web search, surely you want to read about some completely random stuff in another game!)
Fandom is garbage, Fextralife is garbage (and at this rate will probably be bought by Fandom one day). Indie wikis rule.
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Based dev. Fuck fextralife and fandom
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I assume Google prioritizes the wikis that bring in the ad dollars. Not sure if any amount of SEO can change that.
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Why make a Wiki when a shitty Discord server with a clunky search function is easier to set up? Of course it‘s also much less useful, more work to maintain in the long run and a never ending source of drama, but most devs don‘t think that far because they kinda only do it to build a community anyway. Being a source of information is just slapped on but enough reason for them to not set up a wiki or proper forum it seems. Ugh.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the initiative comes from the OG dev of the game, who is Italian: the efforts we go through since 1996 (all I can remember) to avoid ads and popups are of biblical proportions.
I can remember my father taking the PC away from me as soon as he saw I was exposed to one, going "I can take that away, it will be a minute".
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We did the same for The Talos Principle Wiki.
The community is hosting its own MediaWiki rather than rely on Fandom.
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You might like the indie wiki buddy extension, it can automatically redirect you to a independent wiki when you go to fandom (if there is one), remove fandom search results, and redirect you to a 'breeze wiki' page if there's no fandom alternative
(Breeze wiki is an alternative frontend for fandom, much like invidious for YouTube. It guts all the ads and banners and garbage, and gives you a much simpler wiki page)
If you browse a lot on mobile and cannot install extensions, all you have to do is replace the "fandom" in the fandom wiki URL with "antifandom"
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Another step was made to reclaim the free internet! I bought dlc inside the game and I'm glad I did.
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Based dev. Fuck fextralife and fandom
Wat?! Fandom has ads?! Never saw these. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Same thing happened with minecraft.wiki too, people finally got fed up with fandom's bullshit
Same with doomwiki.org and a bunch of others.
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Well, GGG hosts their community wikis since years too...
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Same with doomwiki.org and a bunch of others.
osrs.wiki lets just list them all
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Same with the Terraria wiki. Afaik the fandom wiki is mostly abandoned and people moved to the much better gg wiki.
The Oxygen Not Included wiki made the jump a few years ago and the gg wiki seems to finally be better referenced
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Very nice to see. Might start playing again to 100% it (yet again) now that there's an actual useful wiki for it. Always love to see pure media wiki usage. I wish we could just scrub Fandom's one now.
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We did the same for The Talos Principle Wiki.
The community is hosting its own MediaWiki rather than rely on Fandom.
The Monster Hunter community just did the same: https://monsterhunterwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
Folks finally got tired of the several horrible options and did it themselves. There’s also a discord for coordinating contributions if so inclined.
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Based dev. Fuck fextralife and fandom
fextralife
Sometimes it feels like fextralife is filled only with stub articles.
me: "Hmm, I wonder about [a thing] in [a game]"
fextralife's entire article: "[A thing] is a thing in [a game]"
brilliant, thank you.
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The Monster Hunter community just did the same: https://monsterhunterwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
Folks finally got tired of the several horrible options and did it themselves. There’s also a discord for coordinating contributions if so inclined.
Honorary mention of Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages, which existed as a fan documentation hub since the mid 90s.
