Fandom Sells Giant Bomb to Independent Creators

Re:Fandom Sells Giant Bomb to Independent Creators by jaoane on Sunday May 11, 2025 @05:25AM (#43952541)

The best thing Fandom could do for the community is close forever. Talk about a cancerous website. People like to talk shit about Pinterest, but Fandom is tremendously worse, since its SEO efforts drown actually useful websites.

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Re:Fandom Sells Giant Bomb to Independent Creators by pm3003 on Sunday May 11, 2025 @05:49AM (#43952630)

https://icarly.fandom.com/wiki/Seddie

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Re:Fandom Sells Giant Bomb to Independent Creators by anton-c on Sunday May 11, 2025 @09:35AM (#43953738)

My goodness I clicked a link to Fandom on accident the other day - most external links on tvtropes go to Wikipedia.

A sidebar opens automatically, there's a pop-up at the bottom, tons of distracting design and things showing up asking me to take a poll. What a mess. And I have adblock ofc... can't imagine what it really looks like.

I am saddened whenever an IP I've just discovered has their knowledge hub on fandom.

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Re:Fandom Sells Giant Bomb to Independent Creators by MyPasswordSucks on Sunday May 11, 2025 @12:32PM (#43954901)

> Fandom is tremendously worse, since its SEO efforts drown actually useful websites.

This cannot be emphasized enough.

A clean, no-cookied, location-off search for "Doom wiki" (no quotes) returns the terrible, low-information, awful-layout, often-outdated/incorrect Fandom Doom Wiki as the first result.

The actual Doom Wiki, better-designed and far more content-filled - which is called "The Doom Wiki", and with a domain that is literally just "doomwiki.org" - comes in second.

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Re:Fandom Sells Giant Bomb to Independent Creators by jon_richards on Sunday May 11, 2025 @02:04PM (#43955633)

Huh. Just checked kagi and it’s the same. At least you can block sites manually.

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Re:Fandom Sells Giant Bomb to Independent Creators by 7jjjjjjj on Sunday May 11, 2025 @01:46PM (#43955481)

There's extension called Indie Wiki Buddy that will replace Fandom links in SERPs with links to non-Fandom wikis.

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Re:Fandom Sells Giant Bomb to Independent Creators by Gemdation on Monday May 12, 2025 @11:40AM (#43964267)

> The best thing Fandom could do for the community is close forever.

Ironically, the community of wiki admins there wouldn't like that as it would kill their community. What other platform easily hosts free wikis?

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