Vampire Survivors devs launch official wiki "free of ads, banners, and all of the junk that gets in your way"

[tonytins@pawb.social]

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[kelly@programming.dev]

They have taken the survivors.wiki domain.

I wonder if they are planning spinoffs with other themes?

Edit: typo

[dditty@lemm.ee]

Very nice! This would've been helpful when I was platinuming the game last year.

[chozo@fedia.io]

Good! Hopefully more devs follow suit and pull traffic away from Fandom.

Also hopeful that they manage to fix the SEO on the site, as Fandom is still the top result for "Vampire Survivors wiki".

[mozingo@lemmy.world]

survivors.wiki *

[neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

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.

[cris_color@lemmy.world]

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)

[rizzrustbolt@lemmy.world]

Accountant Survivors coming in October.

[hmmm@sh.itjust.works]

[iamthetot@sh.itjust.works]

Love this, and the site looks great. Wonder what software that is. Is it just mediawiki?

[rustyfish@lemmy.world]

Same with the Terraria wiki. Afaik the fandom wiki is mostly abandoned and people moved to the much better gg wiki.

[kilgore_trout@feddit.it]

Yes.

[kilgore_trout@feddit.it]

Try the browser add-on Indie Wiki Buddy.

It suggests a better wiki when you browse one on Fandom.

edit: there is an open issue to add the official Vampire Survivors wiki: https://github.com/KevinPayravi/indie-wiki-buddy/issues/1102

[evotech@lemmy.world]

Best thing that happened to path of exile too, the devs provide the wiki platform for the community

https://www.poewiki.net

Very based

[kickmeelmo@sopuli.xyz]

Warframe just did it too. Fantastic move.

[alphapuggle@programming.dev]

Same thing happened with minecraft.wiki too, people finally got fed up with fandom's bullshit

[kepix@lemmy.world]

shouldnt this be built in the game anyway?

[umbraroze@lemmy.world]

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.

[thcdenton@lemmy.world]

Based dev. Fuck fextralife and fandom

[oktosite@lemmy.world]

I assume Google prioritizes the wikis that bring in the ad dollars. Not sure if any amount of SEO can change that.