User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Fandom and Curse Media are joining forces/@comment-5645428-20181221200243/@comment-185.212.170.119-20181229215346

This is a really well thought out and thorough comment. I agree with everything except the part about editors not being important. They generate the content and if they leave and nobody picks up the torch the content stales and dies an SEO death. I also think this is a good move for Wikia/Fandom because some of the shit features that were built on a MediaWiki back-end are truly frightening. Building new features on a new platform is almost an imperative. Most of their platform is open source so anyone with a software dev background can wander through the miasma of what they've done to MediaWiki to make it work with hundreds of millions of people on hundreds of thousands of communities. https://github.com/search?q=wikia