[epiccoleman]

Every time I wind up on some garbage Fandom page I reminisce about the good old days of Wikia. I remember many a fun night trawling through pages while playing Fallout or Skyrim or whatever - all the information you could ever need, right there at your fingertips. It's an ethos you don't see so much on the modern net.

[iamacyborg]

It’s funny that people are now looking back at wikia fondly because at the time most folks thought it was full of ads and shit. To the point where Curse/Gamepedia managed to get serious market share by not screwing with the community in the same way at the time.

Funny how they somehow managed to make it worse.

[ogurechny]

And before that, Wikipedia itself was Wikia, with lists of cheat-codes for games or paragraphs of inspired “original research” in articles.

Or the complete plot of “Harry Potter”, as seen in this 20 year old artifact:

https://harryfansowned.ytmnd.com/

[Aeolun]

I remember thinking that wikia sucked at the time, but at least it didn’t actively hinder me from finding what I was looking for. I just don’t open fandom pages because it locks up my phone.

[hinkley]

How did Curse end up making money?

[yifanl]

I assume they didn't, which is why they were bought by Twitch.

[iamacyborg]

Lots of ads across their wiki and other community websites and D&D Beyond was remarkably successful.