User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Wiki domains will be changing from wikia.com to fandom.com in early 2019/@comment-29943340-20180816181055


 * We haven’t been Wikia for almost two years now.

Wikia was clearly shown as the tool the users used to develop communities. FANDOM was clearly shown as the company that supplied these tools. The relationship between us was simple. Using your tools, we bring in communities, and in turn, give you guys more traffic and ad revenue. This change is essentially telling us you don't want to use Wikia as a tool anymore, but instead, as another typical "social media" pile of garbage.


 * The site continues to evolve under the FANDOM brand. Fans are embracing FANDOM and your communities as a go-to entertainment site.

And yet your one tool for trying to connect the "FANDOM fans" and the "Wikia Users" is a currently underdeveloped "mobile friendly" forum called Discussions. I think it's a little too soon to try to unify under a name change in that case.


 * We feel strongly that it’s time to complete the rebrand and embrace the FANDOM brand as fully as the fans have.

You already had completed it! Wikia is a tool, not your FANDOM business. Your business and our communities rely on the same tool. Sure, it's more complicated than that, but that sums at least some of it up.

I really disagree and dislike this change, but I do hope that you guys will ACTUALLY be able to unify your split communities (FANDOM users and Wikia users), so that changes made are actually compromisable and balanced for both. But right now, you guys just sound like BuzzFeed with your pandering.

Also really love how there was a question about wikis that aren't about pop-culture, and you don't even answer it. Guess what, plenty of wikis are for INFORMATION, and don't fit with this "FANDOM" brand. If you're going to neglect them or even go against what the wikis need (as you've done in the past), then at least be up front about it.