Vampire Survivors devs launch official wiki "free of ads, banners, and all of the junk that gets in your way," joining Stardew Valley and Terraria in community wikis with minimal intrusions
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The devs behind the viral roguelike are directly partnering with the community on this wiki
  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    1 hour ago

    Just wanted to point out that wiki.gg is out there as a replacement. There’s even a wiki.gg Redirect plugin for Firefox that takes you to the right place, if you hit a Fandom link.

    • w3dd1e@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      50 minutes ago

      Fandom is icky. A few years ago, my mom was getting scammed by some conspiracy guy from LinkedIn who offered her a “job.”

      These dudes set up their own fandom wiki to try to make their bullshit seem real. I can’t remember the name of the people involved but one guy was claiming that he was owed 300 trillion dollars by the government. (Can’t remember the exact number but it was astronomically high. More money than exists kinda high)

    • Malix@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      24·
      5 hours ago

      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.

  • biofaust@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    7 hours ago

    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.

  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    5 hours ago

    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.

  • Chozo@fedia.io
    127·
    11 hours ago

    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”.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      7 hours ago

      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.

    • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      9 hours ago

      Same with the Terraria wiki. Afaik the fandom wiki is mostly abandoned and people moved to the much better gg wiki.

    • oKtosiTe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      7 hours ago

      I assume Google prioritizes the wikis that bring in the ad dollars. Not sure if any amount of SEO can change that.

  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    55·
    11 hours ago

    I avoid using fandom like it’s contagious. It’s so cluttered, when my blockers on images don’t load half the time. It’s a slow site.

    It’s really the worst, I’d rather scrub through a YouTube video to find the answer I’m looking for rather than go to a fandom site.

    • umbraroze@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      7 hours ago

      I’ve often been like “I don’t know why people complain about Fandom, this is fine”. And then I saw what the site looks like without uBlock. Sweet merciful heavens. Hey, there’s some ads. Let’s cram some ads in the ads. Some prime blank space? Shove some annoying video things in there. Autoplaying. See that navigation bar over there? Let’s make it pointless. (If you come to the article via web search, surely you want to read about some completely random stuff in another game!)

      Fandom is garbage, Fextralife is garbage (and at this rate will probably be bought by Fandom one day). Indie wikis rule.

    • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
      34·
      10 hours ago

      You might like the indie wiki buddy extension, it can automatically redirect you to a independent wiki when you go to fandom (if there is one), remove fandom search results, and redirect you to a ‘breeze wiki’ page if there’s no fandom alternative

      (Breeze wiki is an alternative frontend for fandom, much like invidious for YouTube. It guts all the ads and banners and garbage, and gives you a much simpler wiki page)

      • Elevator7009@ani.socialEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        If you browse a lot on mobile and cannot install extensions, all you have to do is replace the “fandom” in the fandom wiki URL with “antifandom”

  • Ray1992xD@feddit.nlEnglish
    3·
    6 hours ago

    Another step was made to reclaim the free internet! I bought dlc inside the game and I’m glad I did.

  • Kelly@programming.devEnglish
    39·
    10 hours ago

    They have taken the survivors.wiki domain.

    I wonder if they are planning spinoffs with other themes?

    Edit: typo

  • ditty@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    11 hours ago

    Very nice! This would’ve been helpful when I was platinuming the game last year.