User blog comment:Craiglpalmer/Introducing Fandom/@comment-8072-20160125233719/@comment-20644-20160125235518

Those hubs did not receive any meaningful traffic or clicks from the navigation, so we chose to remove them from the navigation. It will not have an adverse impact on those communities since they weren't really benefiting from it anyway.

There are certainly communities that have news content but most major communities are encyclopedia-focused. So we've launched Fandom as a centralized space to highlight community content and create new editorial content that covers all fandoms across Wikia. All of which will be able to link back to the great work communities are already doing.

If you'd like to contribute editorial content about Redwall, for example, you're welcome to apply for the Fan Contributor Program. If not, that's fine too. Fandom doesn't take anything away from communities, but having your content highlighted there and contributing editorial content means it only stands to benefit.