User blog comment:Dopp/Updates to How We Search/@comment-1207498-20120505041449

Probably one of the stupidest updates I've seen Wikia implement.

This renders every search box linked to Wikia completely useless to me as I always know what I'm searching for when I search for it. I have almost NEVER used the search box in order to search for content with 'x' query in it, I've used it as a means of getting to page 'x' as fast as possible. Not only does this totally kill the ideas of redirects and disambiguation, but it makes navigating Wikia quickly much more painful.

Now keep in mind that I haven't read the whole comment thread and I haven't even been up-to-date with how Wikia treats the site lately, but, it saddens me that this will probably be just another forced, unwanted update which won't get reverted. I can clearly see negative feedback on this thread after glancing over for a few minutes. The same thing happened when you introduced Oasis, and I see that hasn't changed shit. Someone mentioned the default use of "Go", while "Search" should be an option beside it. I agree with that.

I'm not a paying customer of anything nor your boss, but if you'd like feedback on your site (coming from a veteran wikian with years of use and contributions to wikis), this update is bad and I'm thoroughly annoyed with it.

I probably won't be checking back here to reply, just felt like venting.