Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-174.109.63.103-20141110134427/@comment-28376957-20181004190129

I know this is an old post, but I know, or think I know, what's causing a lot of the recent problems with wikia sites. Sometime in 2018, Fandom changed the layout for wikis, removed a few skins and replaced them with the current one. The current skin, which seems to be the only one, adds links to other wikis at the bottom of the page. These links are not ads, and so they still load up if an ad blocker is in use. I think that's what's slowing everything down.

Since they did these changes, I've been struggling to load pages, and sometimes the pages won't load as it takes to long that my browser gives up. Upon refreshing and waiting a few seconds, things work again, for a minute or two. It's near impossible to edit things as well, as it won't load. Again, can be fixed by refreshing the page once it's failed to load, though this is a temporary fix for a few minutes. And just to clarify, it's every wiki that this happens on.

It's a problem with Fandom, not with the wikis.