Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25150955-20160909010405/@comment-1038387-20160912201303

Kotoritachi wrote: Tupka217 wrote: TheFoxyRiolu wrote: We've reached 361 signatures. Thanks so much guys!

Which means absolutely nothing. Now, if 361 people came up with actual feedback, that'd be useful. I think it's still something. It shows that people support this and want a change. As for feedback, I highly doubt everyone here will write an essay or something, especially since "no" is just no. But I'll write a paragraph of feedback anyway, since I didn't do that before.

I don't want this feature to be implemented everywhere without permission because it should be a choice. Wikia says that communities are not (and should not be) run by dictators that don't listen to the input of the community. Well, Wikia itself is one big community, and they still intend to go through with this entirely, even though many people have said in the official announcement's comments that they've decided against this. And many of them gave feedback and reasons.

Does this mean everyone has a good point? No. Does it mean there's a wide consensus that Discussions aren't a good idea/shouldn't be forced? Yes.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but every change brings about people with their knee-jerk petitions, and they don't work. Extensive beta-testing and feedback do get changes. Wikia has run testing on diverse communities and has had ample discussions with the Council.

Discussions aren't perfect, and will never be. But Forums weren't anywhere near perfect either. No good search, bad Mercury support, no easy means to delete posts, ugly markup in Special:Search, criminally underused tags, and good luck trying to find that post that was accidentally given a category.

This is an early version of Discussions, subject to change. Even since we first tested it, it changed a lot. There's still plenty of things that needs to be done, and they're well aware of it - we pressed them really hard for categorization, contribution profiles and easier linking back at Community Connect. We've got two out of three so far.

Also, 361 users out of.... hundreds and hundreds of thousands. It's not even a drop in the ocean. The reactions here and on the blog are not a representative sample of the entire Wikia-population.