Board Thread:New Features/@comment--20170207162850/@comment-15278555-20170212014649

Speedit wrote: reply to I respect they have to make changes and remove unused code and tools, but they should be discussing this type of change with the communities first. I saw this news on multiple wikis a week back, personally delivered by DaNASCAT to ensure the community has time to migrate the lists. Also as stated in the original post. So the change was definitely discussed.

reply to Meanwhile, the Top 10 List feature is used by an estimated 20%–60% of actually-active and growing wikis, so removing it will have a huge impact.

Where is this statistic from? A percentage error of 20% out of such a large sample suggests an absolute lack of systematic rigour in obtaining it. Yes, they notified the communities it was being removed...without discussion or asking the about it and using frankly dishonest statements about how many used it. There are NOT 300, 000+ active wiki's on Fandom. There are far less than that and a lot of the largest and most active use this feature.

What I am saying is that the Wikia folks should be working "with" the communities as a team, not demanding that they drop features they are using because the Wikia staff doesn't want to maintain it anymore and would rather spend all their time on doing the stuff they want to do and that they perceive as more interesting.

And for what its Worth Speed I like you. I have always enjoyed chatting with you but honestly you always find a way to side with the Wikia folks no matter how bad the decisions.