User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Introducing Updated Global Navigation/@comment-5448890-20141030143225/@comment-5275700-20141031174120


 * "wikia's no longer trying to care for its users, nor is it trying to let individual wikis prosper anymore."

This statement is absolutely not true. Wikia users are how everything on the network begins and keeps going. We have an entire Community team dedicated to helping users and communities, and a large group of Product and Design folks who also care deeply about the user experience on Wikia. The user experience is a daily topic of discussion for many, many people here.

The prosperity of individual communities is also important to us, and it's strange to hear you say that we might have the opposite goal. Wikia is made of communities, and every new successful one makes Wikia an even better destination for fans.


 * "[Wikia]'s trying to get more pageviews and get users to be everywhere at once."

It seems like you're suggesting here that getting more pageviews is a bad thing, but doesn't every contributor want their hard work to be seen and appreciated? Yes, more pageviews means more ad revenue, but it also brings more readers, some of whom will become editors. An individual community can't keep going without new people coming on board. The goal of the updates is to showcase the depth and variety of Wikia's fan communities, to help every new and returning reader/user find the one (or ones) that are the most interesting to them.