Vampire Survivors devs launch official wiki "free of ads, banners, and all of the junk that gets in your way," joining Stardew Valley and Terraria in community wikis with minimal intrusions
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The devs behind the viral roguelike are directly partnering with the community on this wiki
  • Kelly@programming.devEnglish
    40·
    2 days ago

    They have taken the survivors.wiki domain.

    I wonder if they are planning spinoffs with other themes?

    Edit: typo

    • Malix@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      29·
      2 days ago

      fextralife

      Sometimes it feels like fextralife is filled only with stub articles.

      me: “Hmm, I wonder about [a thing] in [a game]”

      fextralife’s entire article: “[A thing] is a thing in [a game]”

      brilliant, thank you.

  • biofaust@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    63·
    2 days ago

    I avoid using fandom like it’s contagious. It’s so cluttered, when my blockers on images don’t load half the time. It’s a slow site.

    It’s really the worst, I’d rather scrub through a YouTube video to find the answer I’m looking for rather than go to a fandom site.

    • umbraroze@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      2 days ago

      I’ve often been like “I don’t know why people complain about Fandom, this is fine”. And then I saw what the site looks like without uBlock. Sweet merciful heavens. Hey, there’s some ads. Let’s cram some ads in the ads. Some prime blank space? Shove some annoying video things in there. Autoplaying. See that navigation bar over there? Let’s make it pointless. (If you come to the article via web search, surely you want to read about some completely random stuff in another game!)

      Fandom is garbage, Fextralife is garbage (and at this rate will probably be bought by Fandom one day). Indie wikis rule.

    • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
      38·
      2 days ago

      You might like the indie wiki buddy extension, it can automatically redirect you to a independent wiki when you go to fandom (if there is one), remove fandom search results, and redirect you to a ‘breeze wiki’ page if there’s no fandom alternative

      (Breeze wiki is an alternative frontend for fandom, much like invidious for YouTube. It guts all the ads and banners and garbage, and gives you a much simpler wiki page)

      • Elevator7009@ani.socialEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        If you browse a lot on mobile and cannot install extensions, all you have to do is replace the “fandom” in the fandom wiki URL with “antifandom”

        • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          Oh nice! I use firefox on mobile so I can still use extensions (just have to enable developer settings), but that’s super handy for folks who don’t have that option!

  • ditty@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

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

      • Billiam@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        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.

          • Billiam@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 day ago

            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.

            • bob_lemon@feddit.orgEnglish
              2·
              24 hours ago

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

        • Fribbtastic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          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.

  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    193·
    1 day ago

    Just wanted to point out that wiki.gg is out there as a replacement. There’s even a wiki.gg Redirect plugin for Firefox that takes you to the right place, if you hit a Fandom link.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Relative to a fandom wiki: I guess? Although you are inherently going to have the same content theft problems where the vast majority of modern wikis are just ripped from the game guides that games media are still paid to prepare.

      Relative to an official wiki with developer backing? No, it is not a replacement.

      Also: I would generally be very wary of any of the plugins to redirect you since they have VERY broad permissions to… hijack your browser traffic. If you are keeping up to date and monitoring them you are probably fine but that feels like a great example in waiting to find out a bad actor pushed some code last week…

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 day ago

        For anyone looking for a wonderful example of this, check out the RuneScape wiki. It’s hosted by a company that is partnered with the game maker, and is fully maintained by the community. It is the single most expansive and in-depth wiki I have ever seen. It is truly the gold standard for what a wiki should aspire to be.

        It has everything you could need to play the game, all the way down to automatic calculators (with built in character lookup functionality, using the game’s high score leaderboard system) to tell you things like how many of [x] resource you’ll need to get [y] experience, or what your estimated return on investment will be for turning [x] resource into [y] product.

        The game has over 250 quests, (and not just basic fetch or kill quests like most MMO’s have) and the wiki has in-depth walkthroughs (including in-game screenshots) for every single one.

        You can even open the wiki directly from the game. There’s a “Wiki” button on the chat box, so you can search the wiki directly via chat, and it opens in your desktop browser.

        • Matthew@midwest.socialEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          It took many years and plenty of iteration to make it there. It feels like a fever dream remembering the days Sal’s realm and tip.it were king. Remember when the game map wasn’t even in game, they just had a image linked at the top of the webpage?

  • Ray1992xD@feddit.nl
    English
    3·
    2 days ago

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

    • w3dd1e@lemm.eeEnglish
      151·
      1 day ago

      Fandom is icky. A few years ago, my mom was getting scammed by some conspiracy guy from LinkedIn who offered her a “job.”

      These dudes set up their own fandom wiki to try to make their bullshit seem real. I can’t remember the name of the people involved but one guy was claiming that he was owed 300 trillion dollars by the government. (Can’t remember the exact number but it was astronomically high. More money than exists kinda high)