Helping wikis move away from Fandom
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Helping wikis move away from Fandom
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Re: Helping wikis move away from Fandom
#2I have frequently said to myself, "you know what Fandom needs? More ads"
If I'm looking for a specific piece of info that ends up being on a fandom wiki, it's quite a turn off.
Re: Helping wikis move away from Fandom
#3Can wikis on weird gloop use their own domain names? I feel like that is the best way to ensure that they can leave and that the host can't keep a zombie version of the wiki that hogs Google search position.
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#4> [This post] (and many others) have done a much better job than I could, explaining from a reader’s perspective why Fandom is bad place to host a wiki,
The linked post (at j3s.sh) appears blank to me, so if others have the same problem here’s an archive link: https://archive.ph/kwt1b
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#5I have frequently said to myself, "you know what Fandom needs? More ads" If I'm looking for a specific piece of info that ends up being on a fandom wiki, it's quite a turn off.
Also, the site is really slow. The only thing that the site manages to turn on is the computer fans.
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#6Fandom is one of my least favorite things now. The site ends up having more ads than the average porn or piracy website, it manages to slow down my relatively beefy laptops without even trying.
I love the idea of fan wikis, but Fandom is basically the worst possible implementation of that idea.
Re: Helping wikis move away from Fandom
#7Can wikis on weird gloop use their own domain names? I feel like that is the best way to ensure that they can leave and that the host can't keep a zombie version of the wiki that hogs Google search position.
Currently, every wiki they host is on its own domain (besides the meta one)
Re: Helping wikis move away from Fandom
#8Can wikis on weird gloop use their own domain names? I feel like that is the best way to ensure that they can leave and that the host can't keep a zombie version of the wiki that hogs Google search position.
To they can. See the Minecraft wiki for example: https://minecraft.wiki
Re: Helping wikis move away from Fandom
#9I have frequently said to myself, "you know what Fandom needs? More ads" If I'm looking for a specific piece of info that ends up being on a fandom wiki, it's quite a turn off.
It gets a lot better with an ad blocker and other annoyance-blockers. The deeper question is whether or not you think it’s worth it. I think many people visit Fandom pages only briefly from a SERP and then take off, like Wikipedia but specific to a game. If that’s the way you use Fandom then it’s probably not worth it.
What makes it worth it is if there’s a page specific to a game you like and you spend a good amount of time there reading stuff. That’s a long tail thing though.
Re: Helping wikis move away from Fandom
#10I have frequently said to myself, "you know what Fandom needs? More ads" If I'm looking for a specific piece of info that ends up being on a fandom wiki, it's quite a turn off.
Whenever my phone accidentally opens fandom with Chrome rather than Firefox mobile (with uBO), I wonder how the hell anybody browses the internet on their phone without an ad blocker...