Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-168424-20190126015601/@comment-168424-20190128230852

Andrewds1021 wrote:

Well, you don't need the staffing record to tell you about the social media v. wiki issue; but that is off topic for this thread.

Well, if staff changes are off topic for the direction of FANDOM, can you enlighten me (who started the thread) as to what makes it off-topic? Brandon's reply below must be off-topic as well.

Brandon Rhea wrote:

It's very understandable to feel that way too. We've spent a long time doing things that have eroded the trust of the community and we know we're not going to be able to change that overnight. No single reply, like the one Noreply'z linked to, will seem like anything other than evasive absent more detail about how we're going to try to do things better. To do that, we'll need time to prove it through actions. Words only mean so much.

It is important to see FANDOM staff acknowledging how recent actions have eroded trust. However, it would be much better to get some specific plans to restore that trust and demonstrate that the fear that wikis are being devalued in FANDOM's future is unfounded.

The contributions of many of the staff that were let go is probably not well understood by the average user, but as someone who's been around Wikia/FANDOM for over ten years, they will leave a very big hole and not just because they were nice people.