User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-1853435-20160909194904

When Wikia says they’re "evolving", what they really mean is there's no money to be made in hosting wikis, so that part of this site is taking a back seat while they chase after anything that's popular on the internet these days in an effort to increase their bottom line. Which is fine, I totally get that. Wikia is a business and they have bills to pay.

However, that shouldn't come at the expense of your core users. Keep in mind, the core users are the ones who edit and create content, if there's no content there will be nothing for these casual users to come here and drive up page views with. Internet trends come and go, if you alienate your core users by continually forcing the next big trend down their throats you're going to find yourselves obsolete when they get fed up and leave.

In the last 24 hours there have been 350 comments on this post. Most of which are saying the same thing; go ahead and add this discussion feature if you must but don't replace our forums with them. Your community has spoken and it's high time you start listening to them.