alt Hacker NewsHelping wikis move away from Fandom
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The most important aspect of any kind of community thing, if that involves adverts and other income options for the party that owns the platform, is to give back to the contributors.
Did you get in touch with Riot Games to be able to host a subdomain of leagueoflegends.com. If so, it's great that they're also behind this
Very happy to see the downfall of fandom, on mobile there are times when the whole screen is covered by multiple ads, not to mention the lag...
In theory, great, but nobody here is doing it out of the goodness of their heart either.
But, smart on the publishers to take (even more) control of the "community projects" this way.
Does anyone predict Discord might end up going down the same path?
The ads and videos on fandom are out of control. I get these distractions on top and bottom with a tiny sliver of content in the middle, basically.
They should promise not to become wikimedia board members. That is the main thing that allows fandom to be so bad.
The travelling mobile sim guide is/was useful. Maybe esim has made it redundant
The author does miss out on the idea that Fandom only runs shitty wikis.
They own TVGuide now.
I’m one of the folks whose fans go wild. Are they running crypto?
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Everyone complains about Fandom, but it's the only reason 99% of the communities on its site have a wiki.
Take a random game like https://endlesslegend.fandom.com/wiki/Endless_Legend_Wiki
That game is 10 years old and its wiki was built in the height of its popularity when it had people to build it. The developer moved on, the community moved on. If its wiki weren't on Fandom, then its wiki would depend on some random person paying the bill for eternity for a game they themself moved on from long ago.
Yeah, it has ads, but someone has to pay the bill. I'll take the ad-ridden wiki that exists over the idealized one that went offline seven years ago when the interest died out.
This becomes a metaphor for the internet in general.
does fandom prevent their wikis from mass-linking to the new wiki at the top of their pages?
can someone explain why weirdgloop is better/more secure long-term?
The sidebar link on the Minecraft wiki taught me about the extension "Indie Wiki Buddy," https://getindie.wiki/ which among other things prioritizes non-Fandom search results.
What are the major Fandom/Wikia alternatives out there right now? Besides Weird Gloop, this thread has also mentioned Miraheze, wiki.gg, Wikidot, and Fextralife. What others?
Yes
And of course "Weird Gloop" super duper promises not to enshittify, even though they are a free product that will eventually need advertiser funding. Bottom line is, this will keep happening until internet users realise that this model breeds this outcome. If you want nice things you must be willing to pay.
If you're wondering what happened to Fandom, just look at who runs it now.
> In February 2018, former AOL CEO Jon Miller, backed by private equity firm TPG Capital, acquired Fandom.
> In February 2019, former StubHub CEO Perkins Miller took over as CEO
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fandom_(website)
It's hard to imagine a worse leadership team than private equity + StubHub.
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Fextralife Wikis are an alternative:
https://www.wiki.fextralife.com/
Comments sections on wikis there for e.g. FromSoftware games can tend toward rebarbativity, and the ads can be annoying, but in my recent experience the information troves compiled for big games such as Elden Ring are an indispensable resource.
What is weird gloop doing exactly ?
Is it hosting it on cloudflare / using cloudflare workers or what exactly (because I heard cloudflare being mentioned here)
I am all ears because hosting a static site is basically free thanks to github pages / cloudflare pages , but having a site which changes a lot (a wiki can have changes be applied to at an insane rate , though I am not sure if we could use something like git as a wiki I think wikis also allow messages between users ) but is still static can cost a arm and leg