Matsu 💾🏳️⚧️
EllieSince (e: I am told that) Fandom apparently intends to remove text walkthroughs from GameFAQs (which Fandom now owns), a tip of the hat to Reddit user prograc, who scraped all of GameFAQs up through March 23, 2020; the full archive is available here: https://archive.org/details/Gamespot_Gamefaqs_TXTs
holly hoppet 
@noelle damn what a bummer
æon 
@noelle they intend to fucking what
@aeonofdiscord I know only what I've been told, I'm afraid.
&Kalmia@aeonofdiscord @noelle the slash and burn of the internet continues
9th level spell slut@IrisKalmia @aeonofdiscord @noelle i don't see anything about this; the only results i see for fandom + gamefaqs are about the purchase back in october 2022
@hierarchon @aeonofdiscord @noelle I really don't think it's fearmongering when they've historically bought resources and gutted them as part of their integration. GameFAQs is just a long standing Brand with a good reputation to them, none of it's other assets matter
@IrisKalmia if you're going to say "company X is doing Y" then X needs to have actually said they're going to do it, rather than "well, they'll probably do it soon" imo
@hierarchon I'm of the opinion that if an organization is known to do something the pragmatic option is to assume they'll do so and attempt to prepare accordingly?
@IrisKalmia sure, but there's a difference between 'you should prepare for them to do X' and 'they are doing X'
@hierarchon There is, but one makes for more effective calls to mobilization
@IrisKalmia I don't think we should get in the habit of saying things that aren't true to motivate people to do things
@hierarchon Sadly it's a well documented and exploited tactic at this point
Renpona🍭Dev Vtuber@IrisKalmia @hierarchon @aeonofdiscord @noelle do they gut the resources? I thought they just slapped ads all over the resources
fandom's entire business model is profiting off content other people wrote for free. I highly doubt they're axing the most valuable part of gameFAQs
Karyl 
toolbear#🪧@IrisKalmia @aeonofdiscord @noelle
We remain and thus the Internet does. An almost fully privatized Internet was a mistake. We can do better going forward.
We remain and thus the Internet does. An almost fully privatized Internet was a mistake. We can do better going forward.
kit the catman@noelle the only usable walkthroughs on the entire internet!!!!
Lyons@noelle weak sauce, fandom.
lesbot 
@noelle would love a source for fandom removing text walkthroughs from gamefaqs, i'm not finding anything
[MOVED to chitter.xyz] Okesska@noelle fandom burn to the fucking ground challenge
Chel@noelle wait what the shit 
messing with gamefaqs feels strangely sacrilegious 
Togo@noelle Wait, what? Did they make an announcement about that or something?
Reveler in Lost Glee@noelle ...what else does gamefaqs even offer???
Scott Wade
Gildedtongue@noelle what???
Sabre Θ∆ 
@noelle Fandom: I'm just going to buy KFC and take chicken off the menu :D
Fandom needs to stop existing
The Doctor
Open-Source Nivix@noelle Do you have a source for this? Fandom sucks sure but I've literally seen no news that they plan to delete text walkthroughs
Foxhack@noelle I'm sorry, where was this said?
Misty
ThatKomputerKat 
nantucketlit@noelle That's some sad news that GameFAQS is removing their walkthroughs. Their walkthroughs, with their special thanks sections and ASCII-art maps of levels, were a big part of my gaming life in the 2000's.
ArneBab@nantucketebooks same here … @noelle
NekoArc@noelle im not surprised Fandom is pulling this shit. Glad that a huge chunk of old gaming guide internet got archived at least
juv3nal@noelle I wonder if the regular wayback machine snapshots would have grabbed everything. I did a spot check and found some but I don't know anything about how that snapshotting system works. Presumably, if it's got everything that'd be easier to navigate than a flat text file.
Tepiloxtl@noelle I... just hope you're terribly wrong, but that's probably foolish. Can't believe it! I'm just at loss of words, ugh. It will be an end of an era for some when/if this happens. I'm grabbing the archive for good measure...
@noelle thank you!
sleet01@noelle best to back that up elsewhere too, because archive.org will pull stuff if it thinks the original site is still up (whether or not content has changed). Saw the same thing on a couple gaming bulletin boards back in the day: we scrambled to get snapshots of everything on archive.org, then a week later they were all gone again.
Ɲєιƚ Ƃιɍƌ 凤@noelle That'd just be cultural vandalism
Checkers Lad Appreciator@noelle @[email protected] the fuck else do people go to gameFAQs for?
Ash@noelle what is even the point of gamefaqs without text walkthroughs
Humbird0 Fandom@noelle
GameFaqs without the text walkthroughs is not GameFaqs.
... and we would be losing a TON of very useful info. I use text walkthroughs all the time. Text isn't old-fashioned, it's practical.
Ryan Campbell@noelle Money really does ruin everything good
Dark Sage Torunka 
@noelle This is literally the worst possible thing that #wikia could have done with that site. Yes I know they're Fandom now, I don't care.
My first experience with Wikia was about a decade ago. I heard about #Telefang and the translation patch. I tried reverse-engineering the title screen, since it wasn't translated yet... only to realize that I had an old patch because everyone moved off Wikia a year ago
RacieB had tried to warn people, but Wikia actually de-op'd her and locked the main page
DaVince@noelle Sounds like Wikia pulling another Wikia
(No, I will never call them Fandom, that name just feels like another jerk move)
David Fleetwood - RG Admin@noelle Well crap, didn't know those were going away.
kpfssport@noelle Why would they do that?!!! (Thanks for the link)
@noelle
Unfortunately, that isn't a full archive.
They couldn't figure out how to backup the HTML walkthroughs. It only contains the text-file walkthroughs. But that's still pretty significant.
kira :3@noelle text faqs on gamefaqs were literally one of the last good things on the internet what the fuck
@chrisisgr8 @noelle We are not allowed to have nice things. We have to hide them to keep people from destroying them.
That said, I'm permaseeding the torrent and I'd be happy to put a copy of the archive up for anyone who needs it.
June@noelle And remember folks: if you want to keep this stuff around, make sure you keep an archive around yourself! Archive.org may not be around forever.
@noelle Permaseeding.