Board Thread:New Features/@comment--20170207162850/@comment--20170213163505

Hello,

I am going to go ahead and shut down this thread. It does appear the communication goal has been completed. We understand removing a feature is never popular. However, I think it's best I stress a few things to correct some incorrect assertions others have made on this thread.

Yes, Fandom has 340,000+ communities, many of which are small and rarely edited. However, wikis that are simply created and never/barely ever edited are automatically closed to help with our storage and scale capabilities. To imply that the vast majority of our wikis are just one page, empty wikis is incorrect.

To imply that 20-60% of our most active communities use this feature is incorrect. Approximately 150 wikis across all language groups had an all-time total of 10 lists or more and still had the feature enabled on their wikis. I personally communicated with most of these wikis (others helped me with the remainder) - only two of them implied to me they would attempt to save the content. More might have, but at no point did I feel significant pushback from any of the on-wiki communication I did.

In January 2017, in our database, I see only 33 lists in total were created on Fandom. While every edit is important, it is essential to use data-driven information to make decisions.