Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27080627-20161013174107/@comment-168424-20161025000907

Wikia has the misfortune of being more of a pseudo developer in that it inherits much of the core functionality it has to deal with. Also, from what I can tell, they don't really use much in the way of SW development best practices, but opt for fast-and-loose "agile" web development with high rates of failure and talk about rapid iteration without actually doing it.

Given all that, Wikia could be alot worse and the alternatives are no better.