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.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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Yep, that website is barely readable. Thank god for reader mode though
I clicked just to see. You're absolutely right.
I originally tried posting a picture, but I think my instance dropped support for right now because of the recent attacks.
Edit: I got the picture posted for those who don’t want phone cancer.
Firefox mobile with ublock origin. It's like a condom of the internet.
Seems to be a lot of games using game8 nowadays
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...
Every little weird game i've played that has a fandom site, it always seems outdated and wrong.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 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.
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.
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.
Hey, I think you can get your point across without using "autistic" as an adjective that way. I'm sure you didn't mean any harm by it, but we have a lot of neurodivergent users and I'm sure you don't want anybody taking your comment to be insulting or degrading to them. Please try to keep Beehaw a nice place for everybody.
They're just now finding out? I guess better late than never.
I was just trying to remember when the old school RuneScape community got off fandom.
Fandom wouldn’t let them nuke the wiki because they claimed to own the IP that was the crowdsourced information that filled it.
Fuck fandom, i refuse to use them.
They prevent any large wiki they hosted from closing because those have good SEO. They wanted the traffic for the ad revenue, even if all mods and writers got off the platform and replaced with shitty ones.
It really is the reddit migration before reddit migration.
As another example, the Path of Exile community moved off onto their own community-run wiki domain, but the Fandom variant (which is woefully out of date) continues to be one of the top results when searching for a PoE wiki page.
In some regards that's inevitable, but it clearly shows what Fandom's priorities are.
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'
Yeah, me too. It's so much better with js off
I would love to figure out how to disable it on mobile. Does anyone know how?
Firefox on mobile allows for addons, so you can install ublock origin and disable it from there, but I'm sure there are other addons that would allow that.
Is this on iOS?
Mobile safari has adblocker extensions such as AdGuard