User blog comment:Kirkburn/The expanding world of the VisualEditor/@comment-13918697-20141028074944/@comment-13918697-20141030001621

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I don't "owe" Wikia anything. I bring followers to Wikia. I promote my wiki everywhere I possibly can. Every single visitor that visits my wiki -- whether it's 100, 1000, or 10,000 -- creates a hit for Wikia. Wikia sells the total of all its hits to advertisers. My wiki is a part of its money-making machine. I am a part of its money-making machine.

I have more than once brought up the matter with staff of the Source Edit screen selection being hidden inside a nondescript 'three bars and downward arrow' button in the new visual editor. If you are a frequent editor you will remember it's there. If you are an infrequent one, however, you might not. New editors will assume that what they see is all they get until they figure it out (if they volunteer the effort).

The classic-rich editor you select when you choose "No Preferences" in your profile is going to be phased out. They're not hitting us over the head right now with it -- but it is in the plan. When it's gone … and it will be gone for good … all we will have is the new Visual Editor with the Source Editor hidden inside a button that Wikia prays no one will use or else it would not have hidden it.

Wikia is touting statistics that the new Visual Editor is a success. Statistics based on the fact that the FIRST screen that pops up when you go to edit is the new visual editor and the majority of people are going to deal with what they get. This is what these "success" statistics are based on.

How many registered users know that they can select "No Preferences" at this time in their profile? What do Anon editors -- a huge percentage of wiki editors -- do when they encounter the new visual editor? How many editors, anon and registered, exit and leave without creating an edit with the new visual editor? How much time do they spend editing when they do use the new visual editor? How many individual users read Wikia staff blogs (vs. an amalgamated percentage of them)? Where are THESE statistics?

Right now, at this moment, there are 114 comments posted here. Some of them are replies from Kirkburn. Some are replies from the same person. 114 mixed comments about matter regarding a Wikia that has (it states) a collaboration in action of 123,904,248 monthly visitors.

No, I don't owe Wikia anything. When it comes to editing, Wikia owes 123,904,248 monthly visitors a simple path for getting from A to B.