User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Fandom and Curse Media are joining forces/@comment-30930384-20181212210145/@comment-5956954-20181215045405

"Dude, I understand you defend FANDOM"

I might as well stop reading. I was stating factual information, not my position. The text alone, without biased thinking or manipulative preconceived expectations, I simply said what has been happening on this and many other blogs. People hate and are criticising the decisions. Don't look too deeply into what I am saying unless I make it so.

"don't just talk bullsh*t. If there's criticism and hate, they should know they're doing something wrong."

Could there be the possibility that they haven't been doing what's considered wrong or if the critical reception is a bit excessive? I'm not attempting to deflate your and other's points with these questions, to disclaim. I am interested in seeing more two-sided battles and controversy.

"Users have been complaining since the past year about FANDOM changes, but they never listen to users."

Would this work?

"At least I know that if they keep making such awful changes, there will be barely any users on FANDOM, as everybody will leave and only the "loyal" users will stay."

Interestingly enough, the Wikia.com domain was more popular than ever regardless of the changes made. The drop happened around September, which was around the time the Runescape Wiki, among others, had left.

This could have led to a big decrease in wikia.com's Alexa rank, as Alexa also shows the sites people search for on the wikia.com domain is the Runescape wiki, which covers about 9% of total traffic. It can be argued, then, that FANDOM's decisions are reducing the number of users visiting FANDOM wikis.

What is also interesting is the fandom.com is also skyrocketing in the Alexa rank despite it not existing before. The reason is wikia.com is becoming fandom.com. Checking the Alexa info on fandom.com, it also shows that 9% of traffic is to the Runescape wiki, the same as wikia.com. It can be argued, then, that wikia.com's drop is because fandom.com is the replacement.

It can be predicted that once fandom.com is completed in Early 2019, the Alexa rank for fandom.com should be the same as wikia.com in its prime where regardless of FANDOM's decisions, the network as a whole is more popular than ever.

Let me know what you think.