Here’s hoping they migrate to wiki.gg as Terraria’s contributors have a while ago.

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please, fandom is one of the worst sites on the internet

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When the old school RuneScape wiki moved to a self hosted solution it was night and day the quality difference. I’d argue that OSRS (and probably regular RS) have some of the best wikis in gaming.

https://osrs.wiki

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From what I’ve heard, the RS3 wiki was even better, but for sure both are fantastic. Prime examples of how wikis should work. They’re even fully integrated into the game.

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Yeah, the RS3 wiki is genuinely fantastic. Daily updates, calculators for virtually every activity, and you can search it directly from the game’s chat box.

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Fr. Recently the Satisfactory wiki moved off of fandom and it is already so much better. More wikis need to drop fandom.

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But somehow fextralife is even worse.

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I installed Firefox with uBlock Origin on Android primarily because fandom hosts the Forgotten Realms wiki and it’s intolerable.

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The four horsemen of the video game Google search apocalypse are Fandom, IGN, Polygon, and GameRant

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7 points

It used to be so decent, but man, it turned to crap. I hardly recognize what it once was.

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@Kovu @simple
I’ve literally installed an extension to block out fandom results while searching and redirecting to self-hosted fanwikis instead. I hate that ad filled website.

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I’m pleased to hear that they’re moving. Fandom’s had a monopoly on the community-created wiki space for far too long, and it’s had a dire effect on the usability of so many wikis. It’s like they’re trying to make their site everything but a easily usable resource for community wikis.

On a related note, I highly recommend the “Indie Wiki Buddy” extension for Chrome and Firefox. When non-Fandom/Fextralife wikis are available, it’ll direct you to those instead; and when they’re not, it’ll allow you to view the Fandom wiki through a much more usable mirror.

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If this was available for FF on Android I would be a happy man. Thank you for your comment though. I installed on my laptop!

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You can install any extension you want, but it’s a bit of a process. https://www.androidpolice.com/install-add-on-extension-mozilla-firefox-android/

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Some other unofficial Firefox builds enable it too. I recommend Fennec on F-Droid, which has some minor privacy improvements and otherwise mirrors the release build, not the beta build.

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Thanks! I’ll look into that!

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Use android dev or a fork like Fennec, set your own addon collection, then install any addon on mobile by adding it to your collection. Bit more annoying than it should be, but once set up allmost as convenient as on desktop

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What do you mean by “android dev”?

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86 points

Going to Fandom is like visiting a annoying dying person because they hold the hidden information.

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Path of Exile did the same thing, going from fandom to https://poewiki.net. And thank god they did, fuck fandom

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Satisfactory recently left fandom as well.

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I’m hoping fallout does as well. Ever since the two fallout wiki merged, I feel like the experience of looking for info on the wiki has been hobbled by fandom.

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Is poewiki just the MediaWiki software (IIRC, the name of the software that runs the official Wikipedia) hosted on their own server? For official wikis it can be feasible, for user-made ones it would surely be more difficult than just using Wikia / fandom / etc…

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Yup, it is.

And yeah, it is more difficult than just using wikia/fandom/etc, but it also provides such a better experience. Not all game communities will go to that length, but PoE players are a different breed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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60 points

Stardew Valley did the right thing by self hosting a wiki, makes it both official and independent

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Several have, including the old school RuneScape wiki!

Now there’s two, and one is far more content full

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