User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-4984687-20160908234206/@comment-4984687-20160909070224

@MB: I've been editing at Wikia long enough to know that the staff does not care about the workers who edit wikis, they simply care about how many pageviews they get, how much ad revenue they make, and how readers will come back and read wikis more often.

Of course, Wikia could do it all properly, but they decide they'll do whatever they want and act like everyone is okay with it. More ad revenue? Why, let's go from the regular format of Monobook/Vector to Oasis, because that's what we want, so everyone must want it. Let's slim it down even more, so that we can put a ton of banner ads on the sides to generate profits. Wait, what do you mean people are blocking ads more often? Well, it seems the only solution is to add even more annoying ads rather than put a reasonable amount of non-intrusive ads, that'll make up for lost revenue. (If you turn off your Adblock, you might get a google survey that shows up at the top of the page. This deliberately covers all text on articles so that you have to answer the survey or skip it altogether).

The discussions you see here are an okay feature. But what's the golden rule for Wikia doing something people are okay with? They'll find something else to mess up for absolutely no reason! In this scenario, it's the forums that we have depended on for so long, now being retired so that we can have conversations that disappear in just two days instead! Truly, a much better alternative for discussing serious matters for wikis.

Now you likely think that sending feedback to Wikia regarding issues will do something, right? Try giving them constructive criticism through this method, I assure you they'll either say one of these things or just ignore your suggestion altogether.

That's just Wikia's specialty: Ignore your community better than any other corporation does. Look through the comments of this blog post, so much backlash from many regular users. It's not just this post: go through the times they changed the dimensions of article pages to make content spread very thin, or better yet, the infamous and universally controversial switch to Monaco. Wikia has been doing this for years, and will never learn.