Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31293812-20180528030935/@comment-749631-20180820232005

well they aren't completely useless, but from my experience in wiki editing involving many of those customized features when editing many different wikis, using the native mediawiki software and experience would almost always be easier. Like, when will wikia be able to provide something similar to vector or monobook again? What will be wikia's answer to Wikidata? What about those localization languages that wikia have decided not to support because of limited resources while they are supported in native Mediawiki software? How about new features in new versions of Mediawiki softwares? And then when it comes to those native component developed by wikia, what happened to the previous map module? top ten polls? and the forum module? The "discussion" that is replacing forum is supposed to provide alternative to forum in all usecase, have that been achieved? portable infobox was supposed to provide better experience to mobile users and let search engine and such be able to better read the data in infobox, what's happening now? How's the mobile skin of wikia compare to Mediawiki's default mobile skin? How about the media viewer? Mobile app of individual wiki? Visual edit? Inter-language links? What about the stability of the chat function? Support for user ping? Even for things like commenting features that wikia have for years and mediawiki didn't have, the current new talk page on mediawiki is now doing at least as good as what wikia software is currently offering. All of these problems would not exists if wikia just continues to serve as a platform for people to create wikis, instead wikia is not heading toward fandom and remove all those mediawiki things to make itself become some sort of hybridized site that isn't good at any of those things. Now staffs are even suggesting that the company is now going to abandon the domain name of wikia for fandom.