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Raised as a usability problem by 72 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2016–2026), in 33 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Phone use buried under ads that overwhelm useful contentUnreviewed
20162026- Ads make the mobile wiki page unreadable and it is often out of date2026-09-08
- Page ads overheat device and hijack clicks by loading ads where user clicks2026-08-13
- Page is covered with ads immediately after scrolling, making content hard to reach2025-07-06
Auto-playing video ads on pages intrude on readingUnreviewed
20162026- Pages are packed with ads and auto-playing videos that reopen when closed2026-01-06
- Autoplay videos load late and scroll the page away from the reader2025-01-02
- Autoplaying videos and scrolling past ads to reach the article2025-01-02
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 50 complaints
- Site blocks users who run ad blockers, preventing access to content2026-09-08
- Ads make the mobile wiki page unreadable and it is often out of date2026-09-08
- Page ads overheat device and hijack clicks by loading ads where user clicks2026-08-13
- Pages are packed with ads and auto-playing videos that reopen when closed2026-01-06
- Endless incomprehensible tables make game information hard to understand2025-09-30
- Page is covered with ads immediately after scrolling, making content hard to reach2025-07-06
- Site is hard to use even with an ad-blocker, and degraded over time2025-05-11
- Website is horrible to use, with no specific problem named2025-05-11
- Sidebar opens automatically and pop-ups and poll prompts clutter the page2025-05-11
- On phones, recommendation and autoplay video panels crowd out the wiki text being read2025-05-11
- Trying to view pages on mobile is extremely painful to use2025-04-11
- Ads and promotional clutter take up more page space than wiki content2025-03-31
- Ads repeatedly force the App Store open, so users must race to close them2025-03-31
- On mobile, ads take over the page and open more ads, making it unusable2025-03-31
- On mobile, the wiki's purpose is unclear; main page hidden in a bottom dropdown2025-02-17
- Autoplay videos load late and scroll the page away from the reader2025-01-02
- Awful desktop and mobile layout, plus ads and slow server responses2025-01-02
- Category navigation is awful and wiki structure is hidden or removed2025-01-02
- Autoplaying videos and scrolling past ads to reach the article2025-01-02
- Large sidebars and ugly flyouts make the site hard to use2024-10-10
- Ads on the site make pages worse and push users toward ad blockers2024-10-10
- Search bar often doesn't work on mobile2024-10-10
- Ads cover the whole screen on mobile, and the site lags2024-10-10
- Site is very slow to load and interact with2024-10-10
- Every old wiki page redirects to an unexplained meme page, so searches lead nowhere useful2024-10-10
- Makes it nearly impossible to open the page of an image asset2024-10-10
- Website is extremely hard to use, with no specifics given2024-10-10
- Fandom wiki sites are ad-heavy and borderline unusable for readers2024-10-10
- Sites are unusable on phone; ads overwhelm useful content2024-07-02
- Intrusive ads and pop-ups forced onto readers while they browse2024-06-18
- Searching for a wiki leads to Fandom pages cluttered with ads and outdated info2024-06-17
- Cluttered interface makes the site feel bloated even with an ad blocker2024-06-17
- Floating ads follow the user as they scroll down the page2024-06-17
- Phone screen so crammed with ads it's hard to tell the content is legitimate2024-06-17
- Site made practically unusable, forcing users to fork to a new wiki2024-06-17
- Dump download links lead to S3 buckets requiring keys or limiting downloads2024-03-15
- Site is unusable without an ad blocker because of ads2023-11-16
- Set wiki layout didn't work for many wikis it hosted2023-09-25
- Autoplaying video ads and stacked banners make mobile browsing very hard2023-09-25
- Site is overall unusable, with ads heavier than before the migration2023-09-25
- Only about 21% of page is content; full-screen ads replace it2023-09-25
- Site's user experience is full of dark patterns that make browsing hesitant2023-09-25
- Fandom wikis are unusable without an ad blocker running2023-09-25
- Sites feel unusable on mobile and embedded streams get in the way of quick lookups2023-09-25
- Site is unusable without an ad blocker2023-09-25
- Fandom is unusable without an ad-blocker2023-09-25
- Site feels confusing and incoherent, so the commenter left before finding what they needed2023-09-24
- Fandom wiki sites are slow and covered in ads2023-09-24
- Fandom's mobile layout is horrible to use2023-09-24
- Browser slows to a crawl and ads take over on any interaction2023-09-24