The best thing Fandom could do for the community is close forever. Talk about a cancerous website. People like to talk shit about Pinterest, but Fandom is tremendously worse, since its SEO efforts drown actually useful websites.
> Fandom is tremendously worse, since its SEO efforts drown actually useful websites.
This cannot be emphasized enough.
A clean, no-cookied, location-off search for "Doom wiki" (no quotes) returns the terrible, low-information, awful-layout, often-outdated/incorrect Fandom Doom Wiki as the first result.
The actual Doom Wiki, better-designed and far more content-filled - which is called "The Doom Wiki", and with a domain that is literally just "doomwiki.org" - comes in second.
My goodness I clicked a link to Fandom on accident the other day - most external links on tvtropes go to Wikipedia.
A sidebar opens automatically, there's a pop-up at the bottom, tons of distracting design and things showing up asking me to take a poll. What a mess. And I have adblock ofc... can't imagine what it really looks like.
I am saddened whenever an IP I've just discovered has their knowledge hub on fandom.
