User blog comment:Craiglpalmer/Wikia is now Fandom powered by Wikia/@comment-4568327-20160926224951

If people want to talk about fan-related stuff, there's Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit for that. I fail to see why Wikia needs to jump on the social bandwagon. Attracting more people to talk about fandom isn't going to help the wikis that need editors, not people that blab their heads off. The wikis I'm most active on are in desperate need of new editors, and rebranding Wikia from an informative wiki-farm to a place where people talk and chat about "fandom" like a coffee shop or pub isn't going to help that at all. We need editors that actually improve our content, not people that are going to post 50 screenshots of the mundane stuff that happened in their game. As for the wikis that aren't about this "fandom" stuff, like those about lifestyle choices and food preparation, they're very much left out in the cold like some awkward, uninvited guest to a party that they once merrily belonged in.