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Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 2 years ago by simple@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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

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[-] DrQuint@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I give my full support to this.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

fandom wikis half the time are trash and redundant

[-] saruhiko@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 years ago

Is there such a thing as a Fedewiki? We can call it Craig.

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[-] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Fandom wikis are such bloated trash that I will always look elsewhere for info.

[-] StarServal@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

Fandom is unusable garbage.

[-] xaon_rider92@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I really hope that they do, Fandom is annoying as heck to use with the constant advertising and unnecessary sidebar that pops up a big window on mouseover etc. In fact, I hope all fandom wikis leave Fandom and migrate elsewhere.

[-] NotAPenguin@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

I might have to boycott pcgamer too with those annoying popups...

[-] simple@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Use the Ublock Origin extension if you aren't, I'm getting no popups with that.

[-] fedosyndicate@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I remember installing PC adblock just for Wowhead because even though they have great info (just about all the quests and dailies in WoW) they have so many ads and video popups. Haven't really looked back since.

I haven't gotten around to doing adblock for my phone, and so whenever I do visit those sites, I get really annoyed by everything.

[-] NotAPenguin@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I am! I still got a newsletter popup thing in the middle of trying to highlight and copy some text.

[-] gendulf@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Runescape's fandom wiki has long been abandoned, and the SEO makes it horrible to constantly have to scroll passed it when looking for the official wiki results. I would vote that they get a time machine and never use Fandom in the first place. Barring that, I'm torn between my sticking with Fandom until it gets worse, and just cauterizing the wound and switching to wiki.gg now. wiki.gg has by far the least-intrusive ads (which I only really see on my phone when I somehow get shunted into Chrome).