I don't have much of a platform, but I do want to help spread awareness about the Doom Wiki's plight in being unable to definitively beat Fandom in search results since they defected over ten years ago. I have been an administrator on SmashWiki since 2010, starting back when it was on Wikia (what Fanon was then known as), and went through the experience of defecting to our own independent site and then struggling through the battle to beat Wikia's Smash Bros wiki in the search results. Due to fortunate circumstances, it took us only about a couple years to win that fight, with us eventually trouncing SmashWikia so badly in search results that the Wikia staff let their wiki be renamed to "Smashpedia" in an effort to try standing out from us. Several other wikis however weren't so fortunate, still lagging behind Fandom in search results many years after they defected, which in turn leads to more readers going to the Fandom wikis and Fandom wikis continuing to get more users editing them that don't know any better, stunting the potential growth of the independent wikis owned by their actual communities, with Doom Wiki being a particularly aggravating case that I have followed for over a decade now.
So if you ever search for Doom stuff, be sure to go to the actual Doom wiki, and not the wiki on Fandom, as well as share/post links to the actual Doom Wiki instead of to the Fandom wiki. Aside from just Doom Wiki, in general, avoid Fandom and use independent wikis instead whenever they're available. Not only will you likely get better information on the independent wiki, not have your eyes seared off from the disgustingly gaudy skins used by Fandom wikis, have the information be better presented when it's not squished around to shove in as many ads as possible, and not have your device be throttled by an obscene amount of ads, but you will also be supporting the actual communities behind them instead of a corporate wiki farm that only cares to gouge as much profit as possible off the free volunteer labor of its countless users.
Here is the link to the pictured Twitter thread, so you can read more in detail about Doom Wiki's struggles with Fandom and share it around if you have a Twitter account x.com/doom_txt/status/1796226556248883617
If you want to know more about why Fandom is so awful and you should avoid supporting it, you can ask me, but there's also this excellent video that explains a lot of the awfulness with Fandom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcfuA...
Omega Tyrant
I don't have much of a platform, but I do want to help spread awareness about the Doom Wiki's plight in being unable to definitively beat Fandom in search results since they defected over ten years ago. I have been an administrator on SmashWiki since 2010, starting back when it was on Wikia (what Fanon was then known as), and went through the experience of defecting to our own independent site and then struggling through the battle to beat Wikia's Smash Bros wiki in the search results. Due to fortunate circumstances, it took us only about a couple years to win that fight, with us eventually trouncing SmashWikia so badly in search results that the Wikia staff let their wiki be renamed to "Smashpedia" in an effort to try standing out from us. Several other wikis however weren't so fortunate, still lagging behind Fandom in search results many years after they defected, which in turn leads to more readers going to the Fandom wikis and Fandom wikis continuing to get more users editing them that don't know any better, stunting the potential growth of the independent wikis owned by their actual communities, with Doom Wiki being a particularly aggravating case that I have followed for over a decade now.
So if you ever search for Doom stuff, be sure to go to the actual Doom wiki, and not the wiki on Fandom, as well as share/post links to the actual Doom Wiki instead of to the Fandom wiki. Aside from just Doom Wiki, in general, avoid Fandom and use independent wikis instead whenever they're available. Not only will you likely get better information on the independent wiki, not have your eyes seared off from the disgustingly gaudy skins used by Fandom wikis, have the information be better presented when it's not squished around to shove in as many ads as possible, and not have your device be throttled by an obscene amount of ads, but you will also be supporting the actual communities behind them instead of a corporate wiki farm that only cares to gouge as much profit as possible off the free volunteer labor of its countless users.
Here is the link to the pictured Twitter thread, so you can read more in detail about Doom Wiki's struggles with Fandom and share it around if you have a Twitter account x.com/doom_txt/status/1796226556248883617
If you want to know more about why Fandom is so awful and you should avoid supporting it, you can ask me, but there's also this excellent video that explains a lot of the awfulness with Fandom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcfuA...
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