• T (they/she)@beehaw.org
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    I can’t put into words how much disgust I feel for Fandom wikis. Apparently there is an alternative front-end for it, but I still need to try it out.

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    I still think it’s crazy that the same guy who created Wikipedia also founded Fandom, and I believe is still involved. Considering what Wikipedia is and its utility, it almost seems like an incompatible ideology to have anything to do with both at the same time. I guess he’s got to make money somehow…

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    For anyone who wants to avoid fandom: https://getindie.wiki/

    Redirects any fandom wiki to their Indie alternative which are in most cases the only ones actually being updated.

    For every wiki where that isn’t possible because they only exist on fandom, it redirects them to alternative frontends, which remove all the fandom crap.

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        I have also used that in the past, but when I did it only redirected fandom to BreezeWiki and not the other independent wiki.

        For example, Indie Wiki Buddy does this, while libredirect didn’t: oldschoolrunescape.fandom.com -> oldschool.runescape.wiki

        And it still doesn’t say it does that. Am I wrong with that? Cause I’d definitely use libredirect if that was the case.

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          for me is this: old School RuneScape Wiki has its own website separate from Fandom. Read Main Page on Old School RuneScape Wiki →

          The Old School RuneScape Wiki was founded on February 14, 2013. In October 2018, the RuneScape Wiki left Fandom (then Wikia), citing their apathy towards the wiki and excessive advertisements, with the Old School RuneScape Wiki following suit.

          This wiki’s core community has wholly migrated away from Fandom. You should go to Old School RuneScape Wiki now!

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            I know that. And Indie Wiki Buddy redirects to the new wiki, while libredirect doesn’t.

            I used ORS as an example. The same goes for most wikis I personally use. Path of exile, Terraria, etc. all have migrated to new wikis and Indie Wiki Buddy redirects all links from the old fandom pages to the new wikis.

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    Even slightly older styles like Liquipedia and Wikidot have far superior interfaces to fandom wikis. Every year they seem to get slower and more bloated with additional popups. Like wth is the purpose of the “Are you a kid?” question.

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      If it’s asking whether you’re a kid, it’s probably to comply with some “think of the children” law.

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    Not to mentiom that Fandom rejects any attempts by the admins of their wikis to move offsite. If you put up links to the new wiki, they’ll erase them. If you start deleting your contributions, they’ll revert the edits.

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    Fandom and FextraLife are fucking awful wiki sites. The former just sucks all around, and the latter just pushes their shit Twitch streaming and has a severe lack of info outside of, like, the first two Dark Souls games.

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    I don’t play Minecraft, but I really hate fandom. The site is really so annoying to use. I typically avoid it at all costs.

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    good fandom sites are the ugliest & most bloated sites i’ve ever seen & used, & the only site that i’ve seen use 25-50% of the CPU (a wiki page with a lot of videos &/or gallery pages will do this every single time) while ublock is actively blocking ads. like, wtf

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    To this day it’s impossible to activate search in Fandom on iOS. Pressing the magnifying glass icon does nothing. It’s been this way for years and apparently no one at Fandom cares.

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    This makes me so happy. I’ve been wanting to start a project to scrape fandom for a while so I can just have the info without accessing their godawful website. Any time I need info on something in a game I get hit with 5 results from fandom and some half-related articles in the search results.

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    Tell me the irony isn’t lost on anyone else that this website article about users being frustrated by min maxing profits and inorganic design language is designed exactly like the kind of site that they are talking about.

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        I originally tried posting a picture, but I think my instance dropped support for right now because of the recent attacks.

        Edit: I got the picture posted for those who don’t want phone cancer.