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Honytawk, do games w Game wikis just aren't as popular anymore?

Most games switched to Discord for some reason. Even though Discord is exceptionally bad for permanent info.

Now you need to ask the question in the hopes someone on there is friendly enough to answer. And a while later if someone wants to know the same question, they have to ask it again…

Zoidsberg, do games w Game wikis just aren't as popular anymore?
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Figure I’ll just dump a list of non-fandom wikis I use here.

Tolkien Gateway - General Tolkien stuff

LOTRO Wiki - Lord of the Rings Online

UESP - Elder Scrolls

BG3 Wiki - Baldurs Gate 3

Halopedia - Halo

OSRS - Runescape

frozengriever,

Add Doom Wiki as well for all things Doom related

Zoidsberg,
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Great addition, I didn’t know about that.

LaggyKar, (edited ) do games w PSA: If you still have a Mojang account for Minecraft: Java Edition, you have less than a week left to migrate to a Microsoft account to avoid profile deletion
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17:00 pm? So, 5:00 the next day?

JackbyDev, do games w Game wikis just aren't as popular anymore?

Fandom, previously Wikia, a long with all game journalism sites with their SEO have ruined it.

Pat, do games w Game wikis just aren't as popular anymore?

Reminder to get Indie Wiki Buddy to automatically be redirected to ad-free versions of fandom wikis or to be redirected to actual genuine wikis, for example, TF2 Fandom Wikis get redirected to the official TF2 Wiki.

Epicurus0319, do games w Game wikis just aren't as popular anymore?

Because Fandom has ruined the interface, and most people just watch YouTube tutorials

Shapillon, do games w What are some great open source games?

If you like classic RPGs, I can’t recommebd you Andor’s Trail enough \o

Silinde, do games w What are some great open source games?

Helium Rain launched a few years ago as a commercial game with an open source launcher (BSD-3), and as of a few weeks ago the game became free on Steam. The developer is no longer maintaining it, but there’s still a small community that are interested in it.

TORFdot0, do games w Game wikis just aren't as popular anymore?

I’m surprised you could tell, I can’t find the wiki content beneath all the ads

crowHag, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 17th

Starfield, Fae Farm, and Icarus

mojo, do games w Game wikis just aren't as popular anymore?

Fandom ruined actual good wikis. God that site is so shit, why do people keep using it?

sebinspace,

Because monopoly.

Shit, Mojang used to maintain their own wiki for Minecraft, but it was dropped and migrated to Fandom and now none of us can have nice things.

ryapric,

I was about to reply and say “nuh uh, the Minecraft wiki isn’t a Fandom one”, but jesus you’re right.

bobbysq,

It used to be independent until Curse started Gamepedia and then got bought by Wikia.

bionicjoey,

How is it a monopoly when mediawiki is FOSS? Lots of fan wikis use that instead.

FooBarrington,

Monopolies aren’t defined by the availability of alternatives. It’s based on the market share captured by a single entity. We’d need to see statistics to determine if it’s a total monopoly, but I’m not aware of many other hosting platforms for game wikis. Maybe fextralife?

bionicjoey,

Yeah I think hosting is the thing that they’ve captured, far more than the notion of a domain-specific wiki. Of course, there’s nothing stopping an aspiring wiki admin from hosting on a platform that isn’t targeted at game wikis.

JackbyDev,

Fextralife is utter shit. Always giving you the most unrelated information in the longest amount of time all while being forced to watch a stream you don’t care about.

jjjalljs,

I use an adblocker to remove their stupid stream embed

Nukular, do games w What are some great open source games?

BAR is also nice if you like RTS games

potato_lemon, (edited ) do games w What are some great open source games?
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Space Station 13. it’s great.

rustyricotta, do games w What are some great open source games?

Pixel Dungeon, or its more updated and popular fork, Shattered Pixel Dungeon.

Randomized Dungeon Crawler.

Available on PC and Android (at least)

Kolanaki, (edited ) do games w Game wikis just aren't as popular anymore?
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If they’re on Fandom, it’s because Fandom fucking sucks to work with. It sucks to view, and it sucks to edit. So I could understand people not wanting to deal with that shit.

They’re also still new and fairly large games. Unless the dev itself makes the wiki, they don’t usually have much content the first year or so of a game’s life.

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