User blog comment:BertH/Layout and navigation updates coming October 3/@comment-4839035-20120920150545/@comment-4053809-20120920153034

Lachlan5963,

While I recognize your criticism and do understand your frustration, I need to address your comment that Wikia doesn't care about its community members and the assertion that pay or reward is required.

First, Wikia provides an incredible service for people to learn, connect and share their passions - we do this all without charging any subscription fees, we contribute to the larger Wikimedia Foundation code base (bug fixing, feature development and more) and we provide an extensive support staff to help our community members become community leaders, experienced coders, and passionate contributors.

Yes, our business is supported by showing ads on the pages we serve - that's required in order to provide you and all our visitors and contributors a place to connect and share. As you are likely aware, by logging in to your account on Wikia you only see ads on a couple select pages - this is one of the benefits of creating an account here.

I hope this doesn't come off in an offensive way, but it's important for us to communicate some of the realities behind running one of the largest networks of communties in the world and having a revenue stream in the form of on site advertising is how we're able to continue to support and grow Wikia.