Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-13301-20170502181922/@comment-1824272-20170508142102

I don't understand why people hate Portable Infoboxes so much. They have a cleaner markup than wikitext infoboxes, making them a lot easier to build and manage. And on the desktop side, they're still just as customizable through CSS and Javascript as wikitext infoboxes, and they still accept wikitext within their parameters.

I think the "anti-Wikia" crowd (which is easily identifiable because they call it Wikia instead of Fandom) is getting a little bit out of hand here. After actually reading through WikiDex and reading through Ciencia's posts, this is what I see: an admin stuck in his old ways who can't evolve to change, even the most minuscule of change, and forcing his community to preach the same thing he's preaching, and gathering what support he can from the haters that fill Community Central.

For the love of God, people, there's no conspiracy at Fandom. They're not trying to take your wikis and cut you out of the equation through Portable Infoboxes. They're not trying to un-attribute your work. How can you even extrapolate to that from all of this?

If we want to talk about Fandom forcing their way into wikis and making them change out of malice, that's something entirely different from Fandom literally improving something we use every day and making it easier and mobile-friendly and trying to get the top wikis to convert to it to make mobile lives easier. Fandom wouldn't be pushing so hard on WikiDex if they weren't such a popular wiki on mobile, I'd bet. And none of their infoboxes were compatible with mobile, but Portable Infoboxes are compatible with mobile and FishTank offered support and asked the community for any and all feedback on how to further improve PIs specifically for that wiki. Ciencia chose instead to attack FishTank and any Vanguard who went there, and made sure the rest of the community followed.

This is disgusting to look through. I'm glad to see Ciencia stripped of his powers if they want to hold their wiki hostage from Fandom to prevent something that's literally designed to make our lives easier. As for the rest of the people replying to this thread with more "haha screw Fandom", it's getting really old now. Don't you have anything better to do with your lives than throw spitballs?