User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The future of Chat/@comment-36153576-20200805204915/@comment-1824272-20200805212240

When I'm typing this, there are 575 comments on this blog. Will posted above the figure of over 200,000,000 users. We'll stick with that exact number for this.

Fandom isn't one of the biggest tech companies in the world. They don't have trillions of dollars to spend on whatever they want. They have to align their resources with what the users are using.

If we pretend that every single comment of the 575 comments on this blog were from different users, all saying to keep chat (and keep in mind that this is not even true), that represents 575 out of 200,000,000 users. Do you know what percentage of Fandom's users that is?

It's not 1%.

It's not 0.1%.

It's not even 0.01%.

It's not even close to 0.0001%.

It's a little less than 0.000003%.

Fandom can't spend time and resources to improve something that not even 0.000003% of users use. We have to be practical and rational here.

Sure, it would be awesome if we could keep every single feature ever developed and never have any problems, but that's not how programming works. We need to make sure Fandom pays attention to what users need, and users on Fandom don't need chat because, honestly, they don't use it. Yes, you all commenting here use it, and sure it would be nice to keep this feature for you, but it can't be justified when over 99% of the platform doesn't use it.