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A few years ago, Path of Exile migrated from the fandom to a new site. GGG (Path of Exile's company) even decided to host the new wiki on their servers (https:

A few years ago, Path of Exile migrated from the fandom to a new site. GGG (Path of Exile's company) even decided to host the new wiki on their servers (https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3292958 https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3292958)! At this point, the new wiki ranks higher then the old one, but for a time it was an issue. Interesting to see more cases of games wikis leaving Fandom with how horrible the site is, and hopefully this is just the beginning of a trend.

ykonstant 2y ago
Fandom PoE still pollutes the top of Google searches :(
- paranoidxprod 2y ago
  Just tested a bunch and it seems like `path of exile [skill/currency]` usually ranks the Fandom higher while `poe [skill/currency]` ranks the new wiki higher which is why I never noticed (I actually never noticed because I block the PoE Fandom and pin the new wiki on Kagi)
  - ykonstant 2y ago
    That's good info.
    - RheingoldRiver 2y ago
      You may also want to install: https://getindie.wiki/ https://getindie.wiki/
- dpbriggs 2y ago
  There is an extension which automatically redirects you from Fandom to the new wiki. While that's convenient it probably helps Fandom stay near the top.
  - iamacyborg 2y ago
    It does, if you’re clicking on those fandom links and not subsequently providing any negative signals back to Google it’ll assume that’s where you wanted to go. It was and remains a worthwhile trade-off to ensure folks got to the right wiki though.
- entrox 2y ago
  Consider switching to Kagi with its feature to personalize your results by biasing certain domains. I've configured it to lower results from *.fandom.com and am really happy about it.
iamacyborg 2y ago
And we just launched the wiki for PoE2 which GGG are hosting for the community.
- BlueTemplar 2y ago
  I think you mean "we are about to launch", since there is no information about it anywhere ? (I'm guessing it does technically exist online, but access to it is limited to closed beta players (under NDA) for now ?)
  - iamacyborg 2y ago
    Hasn’t been announced by GGG yet but it’s up and available. No NDA breaching content, editors are only adding information that is publicly available. https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Path_of_Exile_2_Wiki https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Path_of_Exile_2_Wiki
    - BlueTemplar 2y ago
      Right, so hardly anyone linking and so no presence on search engines yet. (As a contributor for the wiki for PoE1 I really should have tried the obvious link... less obvious on the phone though !)
      - iamacyborg 2y ago
        Yeah, lots of work to be done on the visibility front but we’re in a better place with this one than the fork was at the same time.

ykonstant 2y ago

Fandom PoE still pollutes the top of Google searches :(

paranoidxprod 2y ago
Just tested a bunch and it seems like `path of exile [skill/currency]` usually ranks the Fandom higher while `poe [skill/currency]` ranks the new wiki higher which is why I never noticed (I actually never noticed because I block the PoE Fandom and pin the new wiki on Kagi)
- ykonstant 2y ago
  That's good info.
  - RheingoldRiver 2y ago
    You may also want to install: https://getindie.wiki/ https://getindie.wiki/
dpbriggs 2y ago
There is an extension which automatically redirects you from Fandom to the new wiki. While that's convenient it probably helps Fandom stay near the top.
- iamacyborg 2y ago
  It does, if you’re clicking on those fandom links and not subsequently providing any negative signals back to Google it’ll assume that’s where you wanted to go. It was and remains a worthwhile trade-off to ensure folks got to the right wiki though.
entrox 2y ago
Consider switching to Kagi with its feature to personalize your results by biasing certain domains. I've configured it to lower results from *.fandom.com and am really happy about it.

iamacyborg 2y ago

And we just launched the wiki for PoE2 which GGG are hosting for the community.

BlueTemplar 2y ago
I think you mean "we are about to launch", since there is no information about it anywhere ? (I'm guessing it does technically exist online, but access to it is limited to closed beta players (under NDA) for now ?)
- iamacyborg 2y ago
  Hasn’t been announced by GGG yet but it’s up and available. No NDA breaching content, editors are only adding information that is publicly available. https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Path_of_Exile_2_Wiki https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Path_of_Exile_2_Wiki
  - BlueTemplar 2y ago
    Right, so hardly anyone linking and so no presence on search engines yet. (As a contributor for the wiki for PoE1 I really should have tried the obvious link... less obvious on the phone though !)
    - iamacyborg 2y ago
      Yeah, lots of work to be done on the visibility front but we’re in a better place with this one than the fork was at the same time.