User blog comment:VickyC/Intro to Wikia’s Development Process/@comment-1630756-20111012191636


 * "I'd like to give you a short introduction to how we work with development processes and project management at Wikia!"

What we do is we go "How can we look more like Facebook without getting sued?" So what we do is firstly we ensure we can get as much advertising space on the main page as we can. Once we've done that, we do two things: 1) We put in a "chat" function; 2) We made a poorly coded Wikia mobile "app" Here's the kicker; the irony being that, like in true Facebook style, we leave both half finished to annoy our users, we even made sure our wikia app is so poorly made that it gets a 2 star rating, just like the Facebook app! Finally, we make a "wall", removing the ability to like statuses messages and changing the name to "message wall" to avoid being sued.

But what does this accomplish? Well, by alienating all our current users, we can get more new users in who'll bring in more unique users and will thus get us more money!