Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus

Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus by piperswe on Friday August 26, 2022 @09:06PM (#32614535)

There isn't very much lock-in other than the domain names - Fandom wikis are all built on MediaWiki, and they have all of the MediaWiki export infrastructure (which exports everything about a page, including history) still intact last I checked.

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Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus by Arcorann on Friday August 26, 2022 @09:52PM (#32614798)

Wikia/Fandom has a history of refusing to delete wikis where the community has agreed to migrate (such as when many wikis left after the forced skin change in 2010), leaving a stale copy with better SEO. I don't know whether they still do this nowadays, but after that incident I swore never to contribute to Fandom ever again (for new wikis I try to recommend other wiki farms, usually Miraheze).

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Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus by kmeisthax on Friday August 26, 2022 @09:44PM (#32614746)

Fandom's lockin is mainly not being able to migrate your community (they will ban you if you link to the new community) and having more SEO juice than you.

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Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus by EamonnMR on Saturday August 27, 2022 @08:38AM (#32618307)

Someone will copy your wiki's content into Fandom and Fandom will starve you voa SEO.

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Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus by antifa on Saturday August 27, 2022 @03:57PM (#32622579)

If that's really happening, then DCMA take-down?

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Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus by EamonnMR on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @11:02PM (#32657898)

Most Wikis use permissive licenses. Also, has anyone actually

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