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Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by ghotli »

deaddodo wrote: post #22
brucethemoose2 wrote: post #4

Here's a good summary of controversy surrounding Fandom and why fandoms tend to leave: https://www.koopatv.org/2022/10/why-people-dont-like-fandom-... And it doesn't even really touch on how Fandom, sometimes, refuses to delete the old wiki for traffic purposes, and leaves it up as a "zombie" wiki that smothers the new wiki due to SEO, or the more serious conflicts between some admins and contributors in some other s…

I don't even care about any of that. I care that literally everytime I click a fandom link, I immediately regret it; with my browser coming to a crawl and being forcefed a dozen ads. And even if you tried to ignore them, any interaction immediately triggers some sort of lazy-loaded/interactive ad to take over. It's one of the worse possible website experiences there is, that isn't actively clickbait or a scam and it'…

Wow I've looked up stuff on the vampire survivors wiki on fandom a lot in the last year and this comment surprised me. Going to that website in regular ol' chrome without an adblocker was an experience indeed. I had no idea. You might find joy just putting a little bit of time into your browser setup. I was blissfully unaware of how bad that user experience was. Hope this helps!

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by samtho »

frutiger wrote: post #17
samtho wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given how infamously hostile Fandom wikis are to users, most people who have visited any Fandom hosted wiki in the past will understand this. The top position, which I do want to point out does change, doesn’t always mean people will immediately click on it. This automatic behavior of indiscriminately clicking the top result is being disrupted in part due to how many ads google is stuffing on the top now that look li…

> People are beginning to be much more choosy with what site they click through to. I would love to believe you (especially as someone who exclusively uses Kagi now); but do you have statistical data on this, as it pertains to the median usage of Google results?

Nope that remains unstudied. Trust me, I’ve looked. A lot of my assertions are based on how I’ve seen other people behave - which I fully acknowledge is subject to stuff like confirmation bias.

For context, I volunteer at a community center and library helping people use computers (usually focused on kids going into stem field, but the general public uses it too). It’s not a diverse sample as this serves only a only a specific middle and working class neighborhood, and I have not been rigorous in data collection (or have literally any strategy to do so).

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by mcmoor »

brucethemoose2 wrote: post #4

Here's a good summary of controversy surrounding Fandom and why fandoms tend to leave: https://www.koopatv.org/2022/10/why-people-dont-like-fandom-... And it doesn't even really touch on how Fandom, sometimes, refuses to delete the old wiki for traffic purposes, and leaves it up as a "zombie" wiki that smothers the new wiki due to SEO, or the more serious conflicts between some admins and contributors in some other s…

Anyone who tries to worship Jimmy Wales for Wikipedia should know that if he really have his way, he'd turn it into this horrible mess of Fandom, which he also founded. Luckily the volunteers rightfully take Wikipedia from him. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wikipedia-spanish-fork

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by pixl97 »

ghotli wrote: post #31
deaddodo wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't even care about any of that. I care that literally everytime I click a fandom link, I immediately regret it; with my browser coming to a crawl and being forcefed a dozen ads. And even if you tried to ignore them, any interaction immediately triggers some sort of lazy-loaded/interactive ad to take over. It's one of the worse possible website experiences there is, that isn't actively clickbait or a scam and it'…

Wow I've looked up stuff on the vampire survivors wiki on fandom a lot in the last year and this comment surprised me. Going to that website in regular ol' chrome without an adblocker was an experience indeed. I had no idea. You might find joy just putting a little bit of time into your browser setup. I was blissfully unaware of how bad that user experience was. Hope this helps!

I had one of these moments where I was like "Why does anyone use apps like tic tok/instagram/whatever and not just surf the web? Then I browsed on the web without on a computer without an adblocker after years of having it on my phone and computer. My thought was then reversed, "Why isn't the web dead, why do people that don't know how to adblock subject themselves to this crap".

Re: Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

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Post by thaumasiotes »

brucethemoose2 wrote: post #4

Here's a good summary of controversy surrounding Fandom and why fandoms tend to leave: https://www.koopatv.org/2022/10/why-people-dont-like-fandom-... And it doesn't even really touch on how Fandom, sometimes, refuses to delete the old wiki for traffic purposes, and leaves it up as a "zombie" wiki that smothers the new wiki due to SEO, or the more serious conflicts between some admins and contributors in some other s…

The part of that summary I like the most is the screenshot of the Zelda fandom wiki, which shows that it can fit 23 words (of the actual content) on screen at once.
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