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by jsrecovery 734 days ago
Former admin of the Fallout Wiki here, (The Vault/Nukapedia) - the Fandom takeover absolutely decimated the quality of information we worked so hard to curate over the years. For example, we had an explicit “no strategy” rule for our quest related articles. We wanted to provide enough information about the quests without suggesting any “optimal” ways to beat it. Fandom carelessly injected autoplaying videos on said articles with random streamers/youtubers showing you how to best beat the quest. That, coupled with the horrible takeover of styling and structure, I felt Fandom really signed a death warrant for something we were all proud of.
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Yeah mostly stopped using The Vault for that reason.

You can really see the difference with UESP vs Fandom for the Elder Scrolls

I don’t blame you - there has since been a remerge of content after the Vault forked, so I’ll say there still is valuable information to be found, (I am no longer involved) but the user experience straight up sucks.