I wonder how much the effect of lots of people having a redirect extension has. If google sees people click on the fandom result and not come back, do they treat it as a good result when in reality people are redirecting to poewiki via the extension?
The situation improves every league, particularly since now there are quite a lot of items, skill gems or skill tree node passives/notables missing from the fandom wiki. It's much better than in the past when you could outright search "<skill> poewiki" and not have the poewiki result anywhere.
But it still feels like there's a long way to go, and it's a shame because it further increases the knowledge gap between experienced players who might know to seek out the poewiki, and new players (or very casual players) who might not.
It hints also at the power of the "old web" and it's historic power over google rankings.
Could you imagine if someone declared a successor to wikipedia and edited all the pages to redirect?
Sometimes you just have to put the effort into making the new better, and it's a hard long slog especially against a well funded incumbent.
But like all problems in PoE, PoE2 will fix it. ;)
> But like all problems in PoE, PoE2 will fix it. ;)
Isn't that the game for which Sannikov came up with his new global illumination algorithm? [1] (Apparently yes)
Not a huge loss, although it still feels like a bitter ending after I spent years sprucing up a bunch of their wikis.