Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33168089-20170821015513/@comment-4347751-20170821151336

Wikia is mainly popular because it uses the MediaWiki software, which (in one form or another) is familiar to users of many other wikis. This is stupid to assume this. FANDOM isn't popular because of the software it runs, it's popular because of what it is. Furthermore, this development is hardly going to make people stop using FANDOM. The platform itself runs on a heavily forked version of MediaWiki, and won't get support past MW 1.19, if people were going to leave because of MW problems, they'd have done so very long time ago.

Forking MW is what has allowed Staff to bring things like Discussions etc, without them, I'm sure activity across the whole platform would plummet.