User blog comment:Craiglpalmer/Wikia is now Fandom powered by Wikia/@comment-20644-20160930175246/@comment-30119957-20161004183731

For all of those complaining about how they're only doing this for the money, I find that hysterical. Of course they are. Do you want to have a place for your wiki or not? They have to make money to pay for all the stuff our wikis need to run. Servers, bandwidth, storage. These things all cost money. The internet isn't actually free and nobody is entitled to their little piece of it unless you're paying for it yourself then you can own it all you want and do whatever you want for as long as you can afford it. If this change helps them keep my wikis around for another 10 years, go for it!

And the poll, 182 people voting here doesn't even come close to statistical significance. Saying because all the people commenting or voting here hate it means the majority of the 100's of thousands of editors hate it is jumping to a huge conclusion. It's called Confirmation Bias.

I'm guessing the company has a few marketing "experts" and they wouldn't make a change this big (and still so small) without having thought about the impact both good and bad. Obviously, to them, the good outweighs the bad.

Yay, new logo, header & search bar. I actually like how the top bar disappears as I scroll down the page and gives me more useful screen space and if I scroll one pixel back up, it reappears.

Like I said earlier, this is basically a non-issue for me. The wikis I visit didn't change in any meaningful way in spite of the dire predictions of disaster feared by so many. If you don't like it and you're a hater, you're gonna hate. Get over the hate. Hate isn't your friend.