Citing “lack of transparency from Fandom […] loss of features […] and toxic company culture.”
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.
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.
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.)
Fandom is unusable without a ad blocker and javascript blocker, and is barely usable with
Fandom has been complete and utter shit for years now.
Better late than never though.
Why not do what the dwarf fortress wiki did, it looks just like wikipedia.
