User blog comment:Craiglpalmer/Wikia is now Fandom powered by Wikia/@comment-25014034-20160927144129

My Views on the Issue (Kindly respect them)

When I first joined Wikia back in June 2014, I was hooked. The whole concept of building a database was interesting. Playing those forum games was interesting. Interacting with different types of people was interesting. It was user-friendly.

However, as my journey has progressed, I have noticed that Wikia is slowly fading away from the "user-friendly" tag to the "enforcement" tag. There is a good reason I say so, bear with me.

When Wikia first came out, new features used to be debatable. They were optional and those who didn't like them weren't considered outcasts.

In today's time, however, there is no concept of democracy on Wikia. We, as dedicated users on Wikia have a right to debate and vote on whether we want or do not want features for our wiki.

Some may argue that such a situation never has occurred. I beg to differ:
 * The Community page was introduced without prior warning. Even after excessive feedback, Wikia has done nothing to change and modify the page to implement users' suggestions.


 * The Discussions feature is going to replace the Forums. I know it is to make Wikia more mobile friendly, but some communities are not mobile oriented and do not wish to be. I believe they require some sort of choice or say on this.


 * Wikia introduced the New Galleries: many promises were made at the time it was launched; yet it has not been fixed yet. Perhaps they do look better but Sliders and Slideshows were going to return. It's been over an year now.

And several other notable features have been introduced and while community feedback has been taken, I am yet to see one example of where this works.

And sadly, now that Fandom is taking over Wikia, I am deeply sorry to say that Wikia is not longer the Community site it once was. Even when you are making developments to bring people together through Fandom, you're also taking us further apart by overflowing us with content which we may not want. I wholeheartedly agree with everything OkamiNatutoFan has stated below.

Best regards,

Darthwikia25 14:41, September 27, 2016 (UTC)