User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Why Fandom Evolves: A Look Ahead in 2017/@comment-460966-20170111213201/@comment-20644-20170112030608

Great list, Webkinz Mania. Thanks for putting this together!

Chat is an interesting product. Chat comes from a time, like what I described in an earlier comment, where we released products that were in what we call a "minimum viable product" (MVP) state. That means that when they were developed enough to be used with their basic intended purpose and functionality, we would release them. With the best of intentions, we would then want to continue developing features like that so they could be really great. At the time, though, further development on features often didn't happen. Which is a shame for Chat, but we know how much people like it so it's definitely on our radar to figure out its next steps.

On the Search front, that would be a pretty cool feature. I shared your feedback with our SEO manager.

We miss the Wikia Stats function too. Providing better stats is always a goal, but it's one of those "nice to have" goals rather than "this is essential, we have to do this" goals. That's the same reason why we didn't fix Wikia Stats when it stopped working. It's a really cool tool, but it's not essential to have. Whenever we're going to fix something or build a product, we always have to determine a clear business value in order to devote resources (time, people, money, and so forth) to the project. So I do hope it will happen in the future, but in the meantime you can request that we give you access to our Quantcast data for your community by sending us a message at Special:Contact. That won't show you editor info, but you'll be able to see page views and the number of unique visitors and compare that across whatever date range you want to set.