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cubefox10/10/20243 repliesview on HN

Why can't they replace the old pages with a link to the new page? Or otherwise remove the contents from the old site?


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xnorswap10/10/2024

That's considered vandalism of fandom, and probably rightly so.

Could you imagine if someone declared a successor to wikipedia and edited all the pages to redirect?

Sometimes you just have to put the effort into making the new better, and it's a hard long slog especially against a well funded incumbent.

But like all problems in PoE, PoE2 will fix it. ;)

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Pikamander210/11/2024

I tried adding some helpful links to the new Runescape wiki back when the split happened, and within a few hours Fandom had permabanned my decade-old account across their entire network.

Not a huge loss, although it still feels like a bitter ending after I spent years sprucing up a bunch of their wikis.

yifanl10/10/2024

Usually attempts to advertise migration efforts on high visibility wikis away from Fandom will be deleted by Fandom staff.

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