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Stop using Fandom (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/games
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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I loath this site. It’s rarely loads well and the images never load for me. And it’s always so slow. It’s probably because I have an adblocker.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

It is slower without the adblocker since it waits for the ads to load if they are not blocked.

[–] Caesium 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have been preaching abandoning it for YEARS. It's even worse on mobile because the formating is so messed up some links just don't work. And even without adblock, there's so many ads that THEY slow down the site. Just because it's 'free' everyone defaults to fandom and I hate it so much

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the Doom community successfully avoided fandom.

What’s to stop someone else from scraping their site and hosting a better one? I’ve never heard of anyone who actually likes Fandom.

[–] CascadianGiraffe 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Minecraft just moved to an official site recently

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Terraria (and also most of the bigger terraria mods) is another big one that moved off of fandom a while ago. Wiki.gg is so much better.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've found the best way to browse Fandom(if necessary) is to use a VPN set to Nordic countries. Ads are very generic and in a language I can't read. So they are very easy to spot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not use Breezewiki?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Better yet: Try the Indie Wiki Buddy extension. It serves 2 purposes:

  1. It redirects you from fandom wikis to the new official wikis, to which the community has now moved from the fandom one. Also filters out fandom results from search engines only if an independent, more up-to-date alternative exists.
  2. If something is still hosted on fandom with no indie wiki, redirects it to a BreezeWiki instance.

~~I use it in combination with wiki.gg redirect, which redirects to newer wikis which aren’t independent, but moved to wiki.gg from fandom.~~

Update: IndieWikiBuddy can now redirect to Wiki.gg wikis too, no need for wiki.gg redirect.