User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-4661596-20160908191002

I agree with many of the concerns presented below, and I just wanted to say this: I am a very devoted Wikia editor, have been spending my precious spare time improving and updating the information on the Terraria Wikia. I have been a member since 2011. I am not much of a mobile user, only needing my phone for the occasional text or phone call. I do understand that many people today use their smartphones more and more, but I feel that the community wikia is trying to encourage to grow is of a younger generation. Most younger people don't have their own personal computers yet, but do have a phone. These people try to make edits here and there, but 98% of the time, the edits are sloppy, perhaps because of the awkwardness of using a phone to make elaborate changes to an article. So I guess the solution is to bring in another way to chat it up, so these users care even less about helping to build the wikia pages. Meanwhile, the devoted users that spend countless hours of unpaid time editing pages get frustrated with moderating all the nonsense and leave. Wikia becomes a playground of 10 yr olds chatting about "Fandom" and the information on the "main" wikia becomes sloppy.

We have plenty of mobile users perfectly capable of using the chatrooms to goof around and talk about whatever, and we have the Forums to ask for game advice and tips, making important announcements and for people to post well thought out guides with pictures etc. Why do we have to smash these two ideas together, and end up with a live chatroom plus a non-live chatroom?