We'd want to look into whether they're doing something similar, or known for causing their wikis grief by making huge sweeping changes that break stuff. And who knows what to expect from something like Fextralife. Wikia used to be pretty good who knows what to expect moving forward.
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Plus there's the internal work of getting the templates etc working on the new platform and adjusting for what's not supported/supportable. Anyone know anything about Fextralife?īut even given other true wiki options, the effort of getting literally hundreds (if not thousands?) of pages grafted over to a different platform is But I've also had to do similar types of adblock-component-murder to wikia/fandom to be able to tolerate its nonsense, so maybe that's not a big deal. I know that when using it for Divinity Original Sin 1 & 2 stuff, I've had to enable adblock on their site to block the violently aggressive auto-playing videos on every page that were distracting and headache-triggering. There's also Fextralife, but I'm not super-familiar with how good they are to contributors, moderators, etc. along with the Compare Ship tables, amazingly. Actually the points/etc templates system is one of the few things in our Fandom wiki that's still working. My RPG group of half a dozen people and the occasional onlooker definitely didn't push any boundaries.Īnd Google Sites probably don't have internal templates etc so it'd be harder to define pilot/upgrade costs in one place, or do other complicated internal work to save labor editing things on a hundred pages every time there's a points/etc update. I also don't know how Google responds to high traffic, I never looked it up.
I wouldn't want to make a giant wiki like X-Wing there. Sites tools may be better (haven't tried them since the conversion), but they were pretty rotten to work with when I was doing the wiki for the RPG campaign I ran some years ago to flesh out the world and give the players a reference site. Now I like Google Docs quite a lot, but the Sites stuff was much harder to use and I was often thrown off by the disconnect. Last I used it, it was like an inferior version of Google Docs. Also it's not a true wiki no wiki markup etc. Years ago but I'm still a bit grumpy.īut yea it'd be free. Well, there's Google Sites, but last I used it I wasn't super impressed with the tools.
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Not a real option then, too risky, too temporary.Īre there any other free alternatives? Hosting a wiki would probably be expensive. Maybe with time they'll get their crap together. I don't want to haggle with it and discourage myself further while their editor and other tools aren't working. The mountain of work ahead of us is made so much harder by the objectively worse tools now available.Įdit: so I'm taking a wait and see approach for a few days, or weeks, to see if Fandom can be bothered to fix some of this stuff. I may be at the limit of what I can and will stick around to fix & tolerate. Fandom humped us hard and we won't be walking again for a long time. But at this point I'm kinda helpless, there's nothing I can do. Over the years I've tried very hard to make the wiki a useful tool, and to be on the wiki answering questions regularly, especially for new users. And still Fandom ignores the complaints and keeps applying the changes instead of fixing things first. They're rolling these changes through other wikis too and it's a disaster for a lot of them. And it doesn't include the new commenting system, so if someone asks a question, the only way for me to know is for me to trawl the hundreds of wiki pages looking for a new post (edit: Main reason we had to disable article comments until Fandom someday adds the necessary tools).įandom is very devoted to and proud of these changes and does not respond to questions like "Will comments ever show up in the activity feed? When will x or y be fixed?".
The wiki activity feed I use to monitor changes and comments is vastly inferior to before.
(This got a bit better when we restored some stylesheet stuff but there's still a bunch of work to do). Lots of our pages, templates, and features are outright broken
(edit: they brought back old comments, but we had to disable article comments because the discussions feature is so poorly designed). Just got hit with Fandom's mandatory "improvements" and it's a disaster.
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