Board Thread:New Features/@comment-134861-20190207143747/@comment-134861-20190207154930

Tupka217 wrote: You look at the ads thing from the wrong side. A lot of people don't like ads, so they get adblockers. As a consequence, advertisers see their stats drop, and they don't want to sell that many ads to those sites. The videos are a means to insert ads that bypass most adblockers. I see where they're coming from, but I'm with the complainers on this one.

Tfwiki forked because they had no control over the ads, and did not like some of them, like 3rd party mods. Wikia couldn't satisfy them so they split. Understandable. There are other wikis that forked, because ads, platform, features. There's a general sense among the user base here, and probably within the company as well, that Wikia dropped the ball on those. I guess I'd be more tolerant of the videos if they were actually made in coordination with the wiki community, and we were given the opportunity to suggest more aesthetic placement for them. I know we have a lot of them on Digimon wiki that wildly mispronounce names, get basic facts wrong, and even use pirated video that would get content banned if it was on youtube.

The articles and personality quizzes, I just don't get.