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.

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.

Oh, it was annoying me recently, so I turned off JavaScript, and it's great again.
I'm very glad, that people finally call those sites on their bullshit, and hopefully reclaim the internet.

EDIT: removed stray 'with'

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...

Wait a multibillion corporation hosts an official wiki on fandom???

Just install MediaWiki on a spare azure server...

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.

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.

They're just now finding out? I guess better late than never.

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.

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.

Every little weird game i've played that has a fandom site, it always seems outdated and wrong. Plus mobile browsing on a phone is painful. I remember the runescape fandom site....ugh lol

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.

This already happened with old school runescape. Editors got fed up with it and moved and now old school runescape has a fucking amazing wiki. It covers almost every single aspect of the game in autistic detail.

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

Yeah, Fandom has been getting worse each day.

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.

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.