User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Introducing Unification, FANDOM's next big initiative/@comment-31955138-20181003171737

I must admit that I have mixed feelings about this.

On one hand forums have long felt like an isolated part of the wiki that no one knew how to use and although discussions was less intimidating it was little better. On my own wiki I have experimented with in-article links to the forum, example posts and the creation of new boards all to no avail. Article comments faired a little better but don't get me started on blogs. In short describing FANDOM as a 'Mystery House' is a good analergy even if it has one large room and many small ones.

On the other hand I question weather we actually want reader retention. That may seem like an odd question but if it is a choice between reader/contributer retention and actually giving readers and contributers quality information which they actually want (rather than clickbait like The Fan Feed which I think is worse than advertising and despise) I am on the side of quality content every day of the week.

I reserve my judgement for tommorow.