- cross-posted to:
- games@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- games@lemmy.world
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Fandom is 95% popups at this point.
Ublock?
Oh indeed! But websites should still be borderline functional even without adblock.
I used fandom on my kid’s new tablet (we were looking up video game stuff) and it was unusable, no exaggeration.
It looks pretty bad even with an adblocker on now too
fandom.com has always been a pile of barely usable garbage. More projects should follow and self host a wiki again.
a core issue for moving wikis is that Fandom refuses to delete the old wiki so you 1) have to fight an SEO war against them; and 2) have to contend with directing everyone to the right place or else you have two competing wikis (one of which will gradually lapse out of date). it’s very irritating.
The only thing more rage-inducing than getting stuck in a game and needing to Google the information I need… is finding that information on a Fandom Wiki composed of 90% ads and 10% useful content. Especially since I’m usually searching for that information on my phone, due to not all games handling Alt+Tab particularly well, and Fandom is somehow even worse on a phone. I have genuinely had moments where I’ve just closed a game and stopped playing because the information I need isn’t in the game but has to be found on a Fandom Wiki.
SEO wars only go so far when the user experience on Fandom is so awful that plenty of players would rather scroll down to use the #2 entry in the search results if it means not having to click a Fandom link. They’d only need a few occasions when the #2 entry is a better experience than using Fandom, and they’ll start using the independent Wiki purposefully.
ugh yeah. especially the SEO war thing, the new website doesn’t even register on DuckDuckGo yet. at least there’s this extension called Indie Wiki Buddy which will hide Fandom results from search engines and redirect you to an independent wiki if you end up on Fandom anyway
Hmm. Is there something against linking external wikis on every article you create?
they’ll revert that and ban you for “vandalism” (i assume they have automated sensors for checking this), and/or turn your wiki over to new administrators.
what if someone pushes thousands of edits with random AI generated garbage from thousands of accounts?
Unfortunately they’re likely well equipped to deal with that kind of situation as it’s not all that different than normal wiki vandalism.
