Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site

Yes, finally! Ever since the minecraft wiki moved away from gamepedia, it's been absolutely terrible. I avoid Fandom at all costs.

I’m always baffled when I see people post links to the Fandom site for Skyrim rather than UESP my beloved. Community-run, for passion and not for profit. The internet of yore, today.

Simpler “digital newspaper”-type interfaces beat all the video-auto playing nonsense any day of the week. Fandom’s interfaces are genuinely baffling to use, who approved all of this visual cramming of information I didn’t ask for? You know I won’t randomly start enjoying any of it right?

Fandom’s Steam key store, Fanatical (used to be called Bundle Stars), is still pretty good, although I wish I didn’t feel like spending money there directly funds those autoplaying cancer videos.

Fandom is unusable without a ad blocker and javascript blocker, and is barely usable with

Fandom has been complete and utter shit for years now.

Better late than never though.

Why not do what the dwarf fortress wiki did, it looks just like wikipedia.

Satisfactory moved its wiki away from Fandom as well. They use wiki.gg now, which seems a lot more like gamepedia used to be before the fandom enshittification.

PoE moved away from fandom and created their own fan based site, and it's so much better now

They don't mention this, but Minecraft isn't the first to abandon the shitty fandom.com platform. Zelda wiki left Fandom last fall, the Star Trek Online wiki jumped ship in February (sorry for the Reddit link, there's no article on STO), and the Fallout wiki left too. Evidently there are more game wikis that got fed up with Fandom and set up shop somewhere else, but there's no press on that, at least that I could find. It's definitely part of a trend, and people need to aware of that.

Edit: others have commented about the exodus of other game wikis. Yep, definitely a trend that isn't being reported

First they left Reddit; now they're leaving Fandom. Do they believe they're too big to be overshadowed by Google algorithms?

Don't understand why people view the web without adblockers in 2023. Fandom websites, with adblockers, look and function perfectly fine.

They could try Miraheze. It’s a small nonprofit that doesn’t put any ads on the site.

Good. Any wiki dumping Fandom is worth commending.

The Fandom buyout of D&D Beyond was the beginning of the end for them. Thankfully most of the talent looks like it went to the same place and got to start over with some lessons learned.

Slightly rewriting thousands of pages of text to avoid being buried by Google sounds like a good job for ChatGPT.

Algorithms thwarting other algorithms... smells like justice.