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    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”.

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        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.

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      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.

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

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

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        The fact that in GW2 you can just type

        /wiki subject

        and get taken to the wiki page for subject is such an amazing and obvious command I’m surprised more games don’t do it.

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          Not only that but GW2 also can link items and skills in the chat so that someone else can view them. And the best part is that this also works with the wiki command.

          So, for example, you found an item and want to know what it is and what you can use to for, just link it after /wiki and you are redirected to the full page of that item.

          Unfortunately, I lately have issues with firefox in which the first wiki command somehow screws with my firefox and thinks that it needs to restart before being able to work correctly.

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            Here’s the most useful one, IMO:

            /wiki et

            It takes you to the event timers page, so you can see when the world events are going to happen.

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              I also like /wiki ezd which opens a page telling you how to quickly do the daily and weekly objectives.

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    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.

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    They have taken the survivors.wiki domain.

    I wonder if they are planning spinoffs with other themes?

    Edit: typo

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    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.

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

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