User blog comment:Dopp/Updates to How We Search/@comment-2022446-20120504012449

Honestly, I'm sick of all these inconvenient changes. Search has been broken since October and you guys now decide to "fix" it? It's not a fix, it's a stupid way to break search further because you guys didn't want to bother fixing something that's been broken for months. I honestly don't care if I'm making assumptions, but this is what it seems to be coming out as.

I have defended Wikia since this whole "Wikia is become Facebook" deal. But you know what, there's no point defending it anymore. Wikia become Facebook isn't a joke anymore, it's a damn reality.

It's coming across to me that all Wikia cares about now is money. You're done dealing with content, you just want social networking. It's all about the users now. It shouldn't be that way. It should be about the users and the content.

I know you'll probably say "Take a break if you feel this way" I'm already taking a break. And I honestly am starting to question if I want to come back or not. And at this point, it's definitely set to not coming back.

I could continue to rant all night, and believe me, I want to. I want these stupid changes to stop. I want this stupid "focus on users, less on content" to end. It's not just about users. This is a damn wiki farm. It needs to be about both users and content.

I understand getting rid of Monaco, it cost money, yes, so you switched to a new skin. And yeah, people got used to it. But did you not notice the Anti-Wikia Alliance. That should've been a big red alert to people getting sick of these changes that had no changes before hand.

Community Council. Why couldn't they have tested search beforehand? Actually, they probably did. And they probably gave negative feedback but you guys probably ignored it. It seems like a lot of everything is ignored nowadays.

When are we getting timeline? What about friend lists? We already have chat. We already have a wall. We already have the godawful off topic blogs.

You stress copyright, but staff don't licenses the images they upload.

What about the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act? You actually need to do something about that. If someone states that they're underage. Ban them. If they're not they will have learned a lesson. Individual wikis do a better job licensing images and banning for COPPA.

Stop making changes without warning. Stop not caring. And just stop focusing on money. Focus on content and users. You guys are really letting veteran users down. It's all about new users now. Make things easier for them. Don't give a damn about older users.