• TrontheTechie@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    Tell me the irony isn’t lost on anyone else that this website article about users being frustrated by min maxing profits and inorganic design language is designed exactly like the kind of site that they are talking about.

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      Yep, that website is barely readable. Thank god for reader mode though

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        I originally tried posting a picture, but I think my instance dropped support for right now because of the recent attacks.

        Edit: I got the picture posted for those who don’t want phone cancer.

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    I still think it’s crazy that the same guy who created Wikipedia also founded Fandom, and I believe is still involved. Considering what Wikipedia is and its utility, it almost seems like an incompatible ideology to have anything to do with both at the same time. I guess he’s got to make money somehow…

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    This makes me so happy. I’ve been wanting to start a project to scrape fandom for a while so I can just have the info without accessing their godawful website. Any time I need info on something in a game I get hit with 5 results from fandom and some half-related articles in the search results.

  • T (they/she)@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I can’t put into words how much disgust I feel for Fandom wikis. Apparently there is an alternative front-end for it, but I still need to try it out.

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    Fandom and FextraLife are fucking awful wiki sites. The former just sucks all around, and the latter just pushes their shit Twitch streaming and has a severe lack of info outside of, like, the first two Dark Souls games.

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    Wait a multibillion corporation hosts an official wiki on fandom???

    Just install MediaWiki on a spare azure server…

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      If I recall correctly, the official Minecraft wiki used to be a custom/self-hosted MediaWiki installation. They moved to Fandom at some point.

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        It was hosted on gamepedia and it was called official, but when fandom bought gamepedia and moved the wiki to their site it lost its official status

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPM
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      Wait a multibillion corporation hosts an official wiki on fandom???

      it’s not official in that way no. “official” in this case is being used to mean “this is the wiki everyone uses, and which is acknowledged to be the Minecraft wiki”―but it has no formal ties with Mojang or Microsoft. some people have suggested they finally make the relation official to get the hell off Fandom, but i’m not sure how much Microsoft cares.

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    Oh, it was annoying me recently, so I turned off JavaScript, and it’s great again.
    I’m very glad, that people finally call those sites on their bullshit, and hopefully reclaim the internet.

    EDIT: removed stray ‘with’

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    This already happened with old school runescape. Editors got fed up with it and moved and now old school runescape has a fucking amazing wiki. It covers almost every single aspect of the game in autistic detail.

    • TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgM
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      Hey, I think you can get your point across without using “autistic” as an adjective that way. I’m sure you didn’t mean any harm by it, but we have a lot of neurodivergent users and I’m sure you don’t want anybody taking your comment to be insulting or degrading to them. Please try to keep Beehaw a nice place for everybody.

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      They’re just now finding out? I guess better late than never.

      as i recall they were basically merged into the platform because their host got bought out by Fandom–it wasn’t strictly voluntary, and there have been a lot of frustrations from day one.

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      I was just trying to remember when the old school RuneScape community got off fandom.

      Fandom wouldn’t let them nuke the wiki because they claimed to own the IP that was the crowdsourced information that filled it.

      Fuck fandom, i refuse to use them.

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        They prevent any large wiki they hosted from closing because those have good SEO. They wanted the traffic for the ad revenue, even if all mods and writers got off the platform and replaced with shitty ones.

        It really is the reddit migration before reddit migration.

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          As another example, the Path of Exile community moved off onto their own community-run wiki domain, but the Fandom variant (which is woefully out of date) continues to be one of the top results when searching for a PoE wiki page.

          In some regards that’s inevitable, but it clearly shows what Fandom’s priorities are.

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    Every little weird game i’ve played that has a fandom site, it always seems outdated and wrong. Plus mobile browsing on a phone is painful. I remember the runescape fandom site…ugh lol