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Hallelujah. Fandom I think is the single most unusable site I have any reason to visit; every time there's a Show HN about a service to 'simplify' a webpage, Fa
by pie_flavor 3y ago
Hallelujah. Fandom I think is the single most unusable site I have any reason to visit; every time there's a Show HN about a service to 'simplify' a webpage, Fandom is the site I test it on.
A history recap for those who do not know:
2013: Minecraft Wiki migrates from a self-hosted solution to Gamepedia run by Curse. This was a good decision at the time, because Curse was pretty trusted in the community; Minecraft modding centers around CurseForge the way Skyrim does around Nexus.
2016: Twitch buys Curse. The Curse Launcher is rebranded as the Twitch Launcher and turned into a desktop Twitch client that also does Minecraft modding. The wikis are initially unaffected. This sucks.
2018: Twitch starts breaking up Curse, and sells off Gamepedia to Fandom. This also sucks because Fandom starts inserting more ads, but the ads are manageable compared to Fandom proper.
2020: Gamepedia wikis are migrated over to Fandom proper, for SEO. Overnight the site becomes completely unusable. This sucks much worse, and actually manages to damage Twitch's brand (because a lot of people think they're involved, due to it still being called the Twitch Launcher) and they shutter the launcher and sell off CurseForge (the modding part) to Overwolf.
- iamacyborg 3y ago2022: Former Curse/Gamepedia execs create wiki.gg and start poaching wikis from Fandom as a cheap vehicle to expose those audiences to ads of their new videogame publishing company.
- apocalyptic0n3 3y agoSatisfactory recently migrated theirs from Fandom to wiki.gg and the improvement was night and day. Same exact content, but instantly it was way easier to use.
- iamacyborg 3y agoIt's for sure a big improvement from Fandom and the fact that they have a commercial interest in running the farm means it should continue to see good support.
- ivanjermakov 3y agoFandom, Quora, Linkedin. Absolutely unusable without adblocker.