User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-5429623-20160909172112/@comment-26402117-20160909183638

The change is not about profits (unless I've read the blog, the presentation, the help page and the rest of it all wrong). Its about opening up the forum experience to mobile users. Wikia know that traffic flow between wikis, Fandom and Discussions need work. Wikia knows that the Discussions feature isn't in its final form and I frankly agree. The desktop layout is really what needs focus.

I'd recommend giving them time to work on improving it - and give them feedback. If there is similar dissatisfaction after, return in a few months and civilly complain about it. Watch Wikia staff take on the feedback like they did with Venus and not go forward with the rollout. But that leaves us at square one once more - without mobile forums.

As a wiki is owned by its community and contains content hosted by Wikia under the CC-BY-SA (which allows Wikia to host the content so long as they've credited the editors in the article history), Wikia has no obligation to close the wiki. If you find a slightly decent competitor other than Curse, I'd be surprised.