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
  • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
    113·
    5 hours ago

    ublock origin and firefox.

    no ads, no popups. game wikis are a breeze to use for me.

  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    193·
    15 hours 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.

    • barryamelton@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      14 hours ago

      and then wiki.gg gets bought, as other wikis got. No thanks.

      Write content in a community mediawiki maintained by the community instead.

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        10 hours ago

        For anyone looking for a wonderful example of this, check out the RuneScape wiki. It’s hosted by a company that is partnered with the game maker, and is fully maintained by the community. It is the single most expansive and in-depth wiki I have ever seen. It is truly the gold standard for what a wiki should aspire to be.

        It has everything you could need to play the game, all the way down to automatic calculators (with built in character lookup functionality, using the game’s high score leaderboard system) to tell you things like how many of [x] resource you’ll need to get [y] experience, or what your estimated return on investment will be for turning [x] resource into [y] product.

        The game has over 250 quests, (and not just basic fetch or kill quests like most MMO’s have) and the wiki has in-depth walkthroughs (including in-game screenshots) for every single one.

        You can even open the wiki directly from the game. There’s a “Wiki” button on the chat box, so you can search the wiki directly via chat, and it opens in your desktop browser.

        • Matthew@midwest.socialEnglish
          2·
          7 hours ago

          It took many years and plenty of iteration to make it there. It feels like a fever dream remembering the days Sal’s realm and tip.it were king. Remember when the game map wasn’t even in game, they just had a image linked at the top of the webpage?

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      14 hours ago

      Relative to a fandom wiki: I guess? Although you are inherently going to have the same content theft problems where the vast majority of modern wikis are just ripped from the game guides that games media are still paid to prepare.

      Relative to an official wiki with developer backing? No, it is not a replacement.

      Also: I would generally be very wary of any of the plugins to redirect you since they have VERY broad permissions to… hijack your browser traffic. If you are keeping up to date and monitoring them you are probably fine but that feels like a great example in waiting to find out a bad actor pushed some code last week…

    • Malix@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      29·
      19 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.

  • Chozo@fedia.io
    153·
    1 day 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”.

      • IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        8·
        10 hours ago

        Just to add on to this, in those unfortunate cases where there really is only Fandom, you can use an extension like LibRedirect which will redirect any Fandom pages to a breezewiki instance, which is a stripped down, privacy respecting, no BS front end for Fandom.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      21 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
      25·
      23 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·
      22 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
    63·
    1 day 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.

    • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
      38·
      1 day 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
        2·
        21 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”

        • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          13 hours ago

          Oh nice! I use firefox on mobile so I can still use extensions (just have to enable developer settings), but that’s super handy for folks who don’t have that option!

    • umbraroze@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      22 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.

  • biofaust@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    21 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.

  • Kelly@programming.devEnglish
    40·
    1 day ago

    They have taken the survivors.wiki domain.

    I wonder if they are planning spinoffs with other themes?

    Edit: typo

  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    20 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.

  • Ray1992xD@feddit.nl
    English
    3·
    21 hours ago

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

  • ditty@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

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