User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/How we're testing the fandom.com domain migration/@comment-5742233-20181016184700

Bad move Joe, bad move.

For me at least Wikia aways was seen as "the place" for games wikis because their comunities used to be the best ones most actives, updates, completes. When looking info for a new game I aways went on google "-game name- Wikia", but more and more recently I been seeing not only google point me to other wikis like fextralife, and actually because seens like many communities for whatever reasons been prefering those other wikis instead of wikia, and most of times I would try to dig to check the game wikia indeed instead, and it would be empthy.

Now going a extra step of changing the name from wikia to any other thing? For me sound just like something that will just push people even more away. Google and other search engines will adapt for sure, but what will be the adaptation? Pointing to the new "fandom" or just pointing even more for other wikis around?

The fandom articles sometimes are interesting and all, but would be for the best if you want to change it to change just it and leave wikia alone, really guys, we love wikia, we are ok with you fandom, but seens like you been loving to do bad moves like that time after time. You need to make your money, and we're -mostly- fine with that, we still remember that stupid idea of trying to block people using adblock, we still remember that WAS BECAUSE of wikia a lot of people STARTED using adblock.

People and communities have flocked around wikia and made it a great community, but those people and communities may just as well move away anytime, remember that. Cool that you guys were able to secure the fandom name, but remember that for having a fandom you still need the fans part.