User blog comment:Ciencia Al Poder/Portable Infoboxes, the first step into Wikia taking control over our content/@comment-86.161.112.209-20170505161340/@comment-1370845-20170511202719

It's easy to develop a mobile skin for Wikipedia. It has a single wikitext code for each of its templates. Fandom has potentially hundreds which do things differently. Again, some use wikitext tables, some use divs; some use inline CSS, others use CSS classes...to account for all of them, and make them display consistently, is not easy. Yes, Reddit is creating custom features to replace the loss, but that's exactly what Fandom is doing for PIs - it creates its own syntax that can replicate the originals (with the right CSS) so nothing is lost front-end, it's solely a back-end change to an infobox that separates content from presentation.

You say you don't want Staff interfering with your community. Do you not appreciate, for instance, having VSTF around to immediately revert vandalism, especially on wikis which don't have people monitoring the RecentChanges? Or the fact that if you're stuck implementing a template, you can ask on Central how to do it? Or the fact that you can import scripts from Dev when needed? If you answered "no" to all of these questions, you're on one of very few communities who can function completely independently. It's very rare that a wiki builds up that kind of community, and I know during my work as a Vanguard I've seen wikis that could sorely use the help (messy categories, barely any maintenance done, badly coded/copied templates).

What is evil or anti-competitive about refusing to shut the old site down? Again, what makes you think they will do that just out of courtesy? Going back to Reddit, if an entire subreddit decided "yo, we're going to remake the sub on another site and close the old site", would you expect Reddit to say "okay, we'll take the lost profits and close it down just out of courtesy to our users who cursed us on the way out and are telling everyone else not to use our service"? This is an insane sense of entitlement.