• Deestan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s embarrassing that huge and ongoing successful games can’t shell out to host official wikis, but instead leave it to the community to either pay out or pocket (not happening) or pick whichever crappy provider they can find willing to host it for ads.

    A good wiki needs to have mosly text, a modest amount of pictures, no self-hosted video, and low computing needs. While an unpleasant expense for a private individual, it doesn’t cost a company much to host.

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      1 year ago

      While I agree that it’s rather sad for developer not hosting their Wiki, I really never had any problem with the old hoster of the Minecraft Wiki. I certainly didn’t perceive it as a “crappy provider”. It did exactly what it needed to and there weren’t any intrusive adds or at least not to my attention. But maybe I’m just really good at ignoring adds myself.

      Edit: Or mabye my add blocker did help, hard to tell since I haven’t seen the internet without it since years now.

  • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The Minecraft wiki used to be it’s own thing before moving to Fandom didn’t it? Either way, very happy about this

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      1 year ago

      Yes, it was great back then. I really enjoyed using it until they switched over to Fandom. So glad they got rid of it again.

  • Dafuqs@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    This is great news. The old site really went to shit the last few years, especially on mobile, with ads using >50% of the screen.