Board Thread:New Features/@comment-168424-20181227041434/@comment-168424-20190129192533

FYI thread-style Forum can also run side-by-side with Discussions.

As much as I hate Community Builder, let's try to stay on topic about Community Feeds.

I'd like to point out that FANDOM staff have said that community-feeds.wikia.com is not representative of Community Feeds in general and is more of a marketing experiment and sandbox. That said, it contains many of what I would call just "lies".

Let's go through some of it:
 * Our data shows that current main pages don’t work for readers and would-be users. Most visitors never see the main page, and when they do they don’t find the content or community engagement they’re looking for.
 * Could it be that FANDOM produces features that make it harder for users to find main pages? FANDOM app makes it hard (only links to mobile main pages; no desktop wiki access), Fandom.com makes it nearly impossible (only obvious is to CC and that's on the global nav; drilling into topics gives links, but they are hard to find and only for maybe top 4 wikis), Discussions (without CF) makes it very hard (only if you click the wordmark), and Community Feeds gives literally NO WAY TO FIND THE MAIN PAGE (wordmark goes back to CF even on Discussions).


 * We have been experimenting for years with different ways to turn one-time visitors into regulars on your communities, but the Fandom app proves two important lessons that we’re bringing to Community Feeds.


 *  One, if users can personalize what they see and for which topics they receive updates, they are much more likely to keep coming back to Fandom.
 * As far as I can tell there is no personalization at all in Community Feeds, so this is either some future feature or just wrong.
 * Two, our user research shows that users are looking for many different kinds of content and they want to read as much of it as possible. In particular, they are looking for new and dynamic content.
 * Well duh, no user wants to read the same stuff over and over again, but if no one is collaborating and contributing to wiki content, it just becomes a giant opinion swirling social media platform which just hops from trend to trend.


 * By bringing Community Feeds to desktop, mobile web, and the app, we’ll offer that same personalization and unified content experience on all platforms.
 * Again the mention of the personalization that doesn't exist.
 * In addition, we are putting contribution at the forefront. As more wiki content, news, and conversational posts are added, Community Feeds will ultimately power Fandom.com. The kinds of content your community is excited about will be what all fans of the same topic see when they visit the Fandom homepage.
 * How is Community Feeds going to promote contribution beyond Discussions-like contribution? I don't see how at all and this marketing page doesn't tell us.