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Hosted mediawiki is plenty cheap. When wikicities became Wikia they added some ads. They eventually redesigned it to look like a monstrosity because the $. I mo

Hosted mediawiki is plenty cheap. When wikicities became Wikia they added some ads. They eventually redesigned it to look like a monstrosity because the $. I moved my very large wiki, which eventually became dnd-wiki.org, off of it at this point and self hosted it for a $10/mo virtual machine. Then Wikia became fandom and somehow became even worse. It is cheap. Plenty of us left at the time Wikia became garbage and went independent. It just requires technical know how that most people don't have.

sdoering 5y ago
For a lot of people 10 dollars a month isn't cheap. For me - no problem. I have a few side projects and I shell out around 15 - 25 Euros each month. But I know a lot of people who would love to do stuff like that and have no way of at least being easily reimbursed by the community for their efforts. A community of 50 people could be financing this with 20 cents each per month. But as privacy intrusive advertising became the norm no solution ever grew enough to become feasible for the masses. I remember the flattr button. I used flattr for a while. But in the end I stopped. tl;dr 10 bucks are not cheap to anybody. I wish easy micropayments were a thing.
- Blackthorn 5y ago
  > For a lot of people 10 dollars a month isn't cheap. I'm aware of this, but you need to keep in mind that we were one of the largest wikis on Wikia (in the top 30 iirc). That's the only reason it cost $10/month. Most of the wikis on Wikia were tiny, got small traffic, and could have probably been hosted with mine on my VM without even affecting mine.
  - Washuu 5y ago
    The last metric that I calculated to host a small wiki on Gamepedia was about $3 USD per month. It is probably a bit higher than that now. That included costs for hosting through AWS next to large wikis like Minecraft Wiki that would easily be a large majority of the monthly costs.(Game updates would vastly skew the monthly costs for each of the large wikis.)
    - iamacyborg 5y ago
      It was always fun seeing the traffic spikes during large game updates though

sdoering 5y ago

For a lot of people 10 dollars a month isn't cheap. For me - no problem. I have a few side projects and I shell out around 15 - 25 Euros each month. But I know a lot of people who would love to do stuff like that and have no way of at least being easily reimbursed by the community for their efforts. A community of 50 people could be financing this with 20 cents each per month. But as privacy intrusive advertising became the norm no solution ever grew enough to become feasible for the masses. I remember the flattr button. I used flattr for a while. But in the end I stopped. tl;dr 10 bucks are not cheap to anybody. I wish easy micropayments were a thing.

Blackthorn 5y ago
> For a lot of people 10 dollars a month isn't cheap. I'm aware of this, but you need to keep in mind that we were one of the largest wikis on Wikia (in the top 30 iirc). That's the only reason it cost $10/month. Most of the wikis on Wikia were tiny, got small traffic, and could have probably been hosted with mine on my VM without even affecting mine.
- Washuu 5y ago
  The last metric that I calculated to host a small wiki on Gamepedia was about $3 USD per month. It is probably a bit higher than that now. That included costs for hosting through AWS next to large wikis like Minecraft Wiki that would easily be a large majority of the monthly costs.(Game updates would vastly skew the monthly costs for each of the large wikis.)
  - iamacyborg 5y ago
    It was always fun seeing the traffic spikes during large game updates though