The Hollow Knight wiki community is another in a long line of wiki communities choosing to leave Fandom behind. But why is that? What is it about Fandom that...
  • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I loath this site. It’s rarely loads well and the images never load for me. And it’s always so slow. It’s probably because I have an adblocker.

    • at_an_angle@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I’ve found the best way to browse Fandom(if necessary) is to use a VPN set to Nordic countries. Ads are very generic and in a language I can’t read. So they are very easy to spot.

        • 10EXP@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Better yet: Try the Indie Wiki Buddy extension. It serves 2 purposes:

          1. It redirects you from fandom wikis to the new official wikis, to which the community has now moved from the fandom one. Also filters out fandom results from search engines only if an independent, more up-to-date alternative exists.
          2. If something is still hosted on fandom with no indie wiki, redirects it to a BreezeWiki instance.

          I use it in combination with wiki.gg redirect, which redirects to newer wikis which aren’t independent, but moved to wiki.gg from fandom.

          Update: IndieWikiBuddy can now redirect to Wiki.gg wikis too, no need for wiki.gg redirect.

    • simple@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      The video pretty much describes why Fandom is so bad and why many games are moving their wikis to alternative services, and why you should stop using it in general. Some examples include:

      • Ads everywhere, including autoplaying video ads that play another ad when they’re done. There are also ads sneakily inserted in the middle of articles that are related to the wiki, like a Gamespot review (Gamespot is owned by Fandom)

      • A sidebar you can’t remove that promotes their content

      • Fandom hijacked the community’s Mcdonald’s wiki to turn it into a giant advertisement

      • Accounts that are 4 days old can bypass restrictions and easily vandalize pages

      • Fandom sometimes introduces things nobody wants, such as AI generated answers that are usually wrong, take up the top half of the page, and with no way for wiki admins to remove it. They removed it after a lot of backlash but still…

      • When people fork their wikis to other sites, fandom refuses to let admins delete their old wikis. This makes new wikis difficult to start because Fandom usually ends up as the top result on search engines, even if they’re old abandoned wikis.