Corporate-owned wikis have ads and other issues, so fans have decided to go their own way

  • deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s fantastic news. It’s so lame how there hasn’t been any serious move to take wikis off Fandom and make them independent or even just on another platform. Fandom is just the worst, and it’s terrible that Google suggests it as the top result now over the independent wikis.

    Like, Bulbapedia is head and shoulders a better resource than the Fandom Pokemon wiki. It’s been around forever, it’s very active, it has far more information, yet Google always suggests Fandom first anytime I do a Pokemon related search. It’s gross.

    If anyone ever gets annoyed at Wikipedia asking for donations, go spend time on Fandom with ad blockers off, and remember that’s the end result of public information wikis relying on ads.

    • HereticalDoughnut@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I really cannot stand fandom sites. It always lacks content so pages are filled with useless information such as links to review sites. Also, it’s an atrocious experience on mobile.

      • yukichigai@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        The number of CSS hacks needed to make the site anything but obnoxious even on desktop is obscene. Not just the ads, but the constant pushing of unrelated content and wikis, popovers, auto-play videos… it’s awful.

      • HidingCat@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Content is all on the people contributing to the wiki, it’s not Fandom’s problem.

        The shite experience though, totally is Fandom’s.