User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Wiki domains will be changing from wikia.com to fandom.com in early 2019/@comment-1187559-20180816161114

"We haven’t been Wikia for almost two years now."

Yeah, it's hard to not notice that. Ever since it changed to "Fandom" the site has moved away from it's original purpose and just tried to turn in to some kind of social media site. Forcing broken additions on to communities that don't want them under the presences of "adding more editors". Even when told not to work the response is either silence, or being told we're using the feature wrong. Fandom has become far more corporate like ever since it changed its name. It's almost ironic that since changing its name to Fandom it's cared less about its Fandom now than it did before. Once on the CoD wiki we could host giveaways, get Q+As with devs and a bunch of other cool things. Now we get opinion blogs written by people that don't even edit on our wiki.

Most people who made Wikis did so because they wanted to make a hub of information for a particular topic. Yes, those people likely were in some form of Fandom, but that never constituted the name change. All this really cements is Fandom is no longer about supplying information, it's just a husk that wants to draw people in and get its ad-revenue. I understand Wikia has always been free, and they need to make their profits somehow, but places like Gamepedia have done so without forcing autoplaying videos and discussion feeds on to their sites.

All in all, it just shows that the company is starting to cater to a new audience. Viewers over editors.