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Fandom (Wikia) is acquiring Curse Media from Twitch, which will include combining Gamepedia into Fandom

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  1. musa_totter
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    That's a shame, IMO Gamepedia is much better than Wikia. I hope they learn from what Gamepedia does better, rather than just migrating Gamepedia sites over to Wikia, but I don't think they will....

    That's a shame, IMO Gamepedia is much better than Wikia. I hope they learn from what Gamepedia does better, rather than just migrating Gamepedia sites over to Wikia, but I don't think they will.

    Side note, does this deal also include Feed the Beast? (Edit: According to the reddit thread, probably not.)

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    meghan
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    Ewwwwwww. RIP Curse. Wikia is awful.

    Ewwwwwww. RIP Curse. Wikia is awful.

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      cfabbro
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      Care to expand on that? I don't know nearly enough about Wikia as an organization to pass judgement on them or this acquisition, but their site and all the various gaming wikis on it have always...

      Care to expand on that? I don't know nearly enough about Wikia as an organization to pass judgement on them or this acquisition, but their site and all the various gaming wikis on it have always been pretty useful to me. And ever since the Curse client was shut down I honestly haven't kept up with what Curse even does anymore. It looks like Gamepedia is a competing wiki service (admittedly much higher quality than Wikia) and CurseForge a mod site (but not nearly as in-depth as Nexus). Interesting.

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      1. edward
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        And that's exactly the problem. If the gamepedia sites get shut down and folded into their .wikia.com (or .fandom.com?) counterparts it will be for the worse. Just compare the front page of...

        (admittedly much higher quality than Wikia)

        And that's exactly the problem. If the gamepedia sites get shut down and folded into their .wikia.com (or .fandom.com?) counterparts it will be for the worse.

        Just compare the front page of minecraft.fandom.com to minecraft.gamepedia.com.

        The giant site level navbar (who navigates from one wiki to another anyway?) on top that has the subdomain level search bar hidden in it. 1/3 of the screen being dead space even though wikis being text based benefit from a lot of horizontal space. And then within that centered block another 1/3 is taken up be recent wiki activity, then more dead space below that activity (see here, gamepedia is guilty of similar, but it's worse on fandom). The annoying background image as opposed to gamepedia's white background. Fandom's focus on community in a site that is supposed to be an encyclopedia, not a social network.

        If Fandom leaves the gamepedia sites alone then I don't think it will make too much a difference, just like when minecraftwiki.net became minecraft.gamepedia.net. But if they integrate it into their weird attempt at being a social network, it will be bad.

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