Good! Hopefully more devs follow suit and pull traffic away from Fandom.
Also hopeful that they manage to fix the SEO on the site, as Fandom is still the top result for “Vampire Survivors wiki”.
Try the browser add-on Indie Wiki Buddy.
It suggests a better wiki when you browse one on Fandom.
edit: there is an open issue to add the official Vampire Survivors wiki: https://github.com/KevinPayravi/indie-wiki-buddy/issues/1102
Just to add on to this, in those unfortunate cases where there really is only Fandom, you can use an extension like LibRedirect which will redirect any Fandom pages to a breezewiki instance, which is a stripped down, privacy respecting, no BS front end for Fandom.
Same with the Terraria wiki. Afaik the fandom wiki is mostly abandoned and people moved to the much better gg wiki.
Why make a Wiki when a shitty Discord server with a clunky search function is easier to set up? Of course it‘s also much less useful, more work to maintain in the long run and a never ending source of drama, but most devs don‘t think that far because they kinda only do it to build a community anyway. Being a source of information is just slapped on but enough reason for them to not set up a wiki or proper forum it seems. Ugh.
I assume Google prioritizes the wikis that bring in the ad dollars. Not sure if any amount of SEO can change that.
Well, GGG hosts their community wikis since years too…
We did the same for The Talos Principle Wiki.
The community is hosting its own MediaWiki rather than rely on Fandom.
Same for us with the Cyber Knights: Flashpoint wiki. More devs should learn that self-hosting a community wiki for their game is not that hard.
The Monster Hunter community just did the same: https://monsterhunterwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
Folks finally got tired of the several horrible options and did it themselves. There’s also a discord for coordinating contributions if so inclined.
Based dev. Fuck fextralife and fandom
fextralife
Sometimes it feels like fextralife is filled only with stub articles.
me: “Hmm, I wonder about [a thing] in [a game]”
fextralife’s entire article: “[A thing] is a thing in [a game]”
brilliant, thank you.
Wat?! Fandom has ads?! Never saw these. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Best thing that happened to path of exile too, the devs provide the wiki platform for the community
Very based
Same thing happened with minecraft.wiki too, people finally got fed up with fandom’s bullshit
That’s not the same, Mojang isn’t affiliated with the wiki at all.
Same with doomwiki.org and a bunch of others.
osrs.wiki lets just list them all
I’m surprised the OSRS wiki isn’t mentioned more. The game itself is very community oriented as well.
OSRS wiki is BY FAR the best wiki in the entire industry.
Warframe just did it too. Fantastic move.
They have taken the survivors.wiki domain.
I wonder if they are planning spinoffs with other themes?
Edit: typo
Accountant Survivors coming in October.
survivors.wiki *
Thanks
I wouldn’t be surprised if the initiative comes from the OG dev of the game, who is Italian: the efforts we go through since 1996 (all I can remember) to avoid ads and popups are of biblical proportions.
I can remember my father taking the PC away from me as soon as he saw I was exposed to one, going “I can take that away, it will be a minute”. It wasn’t a minute.
Love this, and the site looks great. Wonder what software that is. Is it just mediawiki?
Yes.
Ah, perfect, thank you. I was particularly interested because I just recently dabbled with mediawiki and ended up going with dokuwiki.
ublock origin and firefox.
no ads, no popups. game wikis are a breeze to use for me.
Breezewiki?
This pleases me.
Very nice! This would’ve been helpful when I was platinuming the game last year.
Very nice to see. Might start playing again to 100% it (yet again) now that there’s an actual useful wiki for it. Always love to see pure media wiki usage. I wish we could just scrub Fandom’s one now.
Another step was made to reclaim the free internet! I bought dlc inside the game and I’m glad I did.
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shouldnt this be built in the game anyway?
