User blog comment:Ducksoup/Why Wikia Evolves/@comment-25376600-20150620174455/@comment-20644-20150620190024

Thank you for posting this comment. This is a really good discussion point.

What you and the blog post you linked to described is always a really difficult issue when it comes to prioritization. We want to fix every issue very quickly, especially when it impacts people like that. From a user experience, what Springvanillarose described sucks and isn't what we want people to experience on Wikia. But at the same time, Spring used a very key word: rare. When resources are finite, do we devote them to issues facing one or even just a few people, or do we devote them to where they will do the most good for the most amount of people?

Questions like that and the need to serve the most amount of people as effectively as possible often means that issues impacting a small amount of people, even if those issues are important to those few people&mdash;and by no means should my comment be taken as one that discounts their importance to people&mdash;are lower on the priority list. While I don't know the particulars of the bug issue referenced in the bug you linked to, I can say that some small issues, to be perfectly honest, will never be fixed due to their limited impact.

Is that the most ideal scenario ever? Nope! But it's the simple reality of online companies. I would bet you that even Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and other juggernauts all have the same basic process of prioritizing what does the most good for the most amount of people, because even multi-billion dollar companies have finite resources.

And as Bert said yesterday here, even the Achievements feature itself is not a high priority for Wikia right now. Achievements are not a critical component to the Wikia experience, especially when our biggest priorities are based around mobile compatibility, so for now our focus is on other parts of the site and other more critical parts of the Wikia experience. Which isn't to say we won't revisit Achievements in the future&mdash;we may very well do so&mdash;but it's not a current priority.

That all goes back to everything Andrew said about why Wikia evolves. I would encourage you (and everyone) to read what Bert said and the ensuing discussion for more info.