Board Thread:New Features/@comment-134861-20190207143747/@comment-1038387-20190207153919

You look at the ads thing from the wrong side. A lot of people don't like ads, so they get adblockers. As a consequence, advertisers see their stats drop, and they don't want to sell that many ads to those sites. The videos are a means to insert ads that bypass most adblockers. I see where they're coming from, but I'm with the complainers on this one.

Tfwiki forked because they had no control over the ads, and did not like some of them, like 3rd party mods. Wikia couldn't satisfy them so they split. Understandable. There are other wikis that forked, because ads, platform, features. There's a general sense among the user base here, and probably within the company as well, that Wikia dropped the ball on those.