User blog comment:Master Ceadeus 27/An Open Letter to Wikia, Regarding Change/@comment-25538140-20141208180453/@comment-5448890-20141212163756

Brickimedia was one of the last results of a long period, which I call the first Wikia War, wherein users protested a bad change by mass-moving wikis to other platforms. At the time, most of wikia's features could be obtained through extensions--come to think of it, even now, wikia has no truly unique features. Chat is available through MW extensions. Forums are, too. Social userpages are available as well. Wikia just happened to have looked a little smoother, at one point.