User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Wiki domains will be changing from wikia.com to fandom.com in early 2019/@comment-809585-20180815205416

With all due respect as someone who's been part of Wiki for 10 years I'm going to have to share my disappointment. Wikia as a whole sounds substantially more professional than utilising "FANDOM", it screams that a bunch of children are running the site.

"Fans are embracing FANDOM and your communities as a go-to entertainment site." and "FANDOM has established itself as a recognizable brand, and the number of frequent readers is growing."

This seems like an incredibly presumptive statement without anything to back it up in the blog, where is the confirmation it's actually been a thing? Look as I said I've been with Wikia for 10 years and have watched it grow, but at the same time it's still disappointing you guys are doing this stuff without at least consulting members of the community who you guys keep in regular contact with as well as just at times how you guys handle other stuff like global blocks, while my mention of blocks are completely irrelevant to the topic in hand it's still something I feel should be addressed over a complete overhaul in regards to name changes.

Like, when y'all were going to do a completely new layout several years ago you guys asked what the opinion was, why isn't this also one of those cases? A good chunk of comments are also expressing disapproval of this and some of them have been completely ignored. This was also an issue when people expressed disapproval over another layout overhaul you guys were planning which was met with a huge case of backlash.

Like okay, I get you guys are trying to see the big picture but it's coming off like you're completely alienating people who've actually made Wikia what it actually is, especially given the growth in use of Wikia over places like Wikipedia when it comes to content such as video games, movies and books.

Now obviously I don't really work or answer to you guys but I do believe that there needs to be a good level of communication between staff and its members, most of the time it's you guys giving a statement, bit of praise and some criticism but most of the time you guys seem to completely ignore the criticism/don't even attempt to address it.