User blog comment:Kirkburn/The expanding world of the VisualEditor/@comment-13918697-20141028074944/@comment-13918697-20141029004710

@DEmersonJMFM: Hello DE! Look, I've worked in many companies wearing several hats and I am very well aware that the "little people" have no say in what a company does. These things are decided behind closed doors and then announced. Asking for feedback is a pat on the head to make people feel good, but the change -- whatever it may be -- is decided long ago and by the time it is initiated is past the "feedback" stage. I know Wikia has goals. Every company does. And unlike Facebook and YouTube, I know it gives you a heads up of what's coming. However, Facebook and YouTube are not "farm" websites. You don't create and develop anything on them. You get a page or a channel. Then you just add to them with the confines of what both websites are designed for. Wikia, on the other hand, is a visually engaging site. It's based on having total strangers create a farm in it and have their mutual-interest followers come ("If you build it, he will come.") Wikia cannot exist without the premise that we will bring followers to what we create on Wikia -- and in return, Wikia gets hits and advertising dollars.

So this website -- this company -- that depends on people wanting to use it to build their farms, has taken an approach that "the farmer will just have to eat" whatever Wikia wants to plant on it. You've got techies sitting around a table coming up with ideas but without any interest in what will be the easiest path to go from A to B for anons and registered editors. It doesn't happen immediately, but the "our way or the highway" has been the stake through the heart of many companies.