Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-31252647-20161211101229/@comment-15278555-20161213001927

Good to know, thanks for the clarification. But just for clarification of my point, being official doesn't require it to be supported by paid staff. When a large piece of a community uses something and when it takes the name of that entity directly and is actively supported by people in positions of leadership within that organization, it is official. Calling it unofficial is just ignoring the facts. As such, regardless of whether the Wikia staff are paid to support it, the Discord and IRC channels are as official as official can get. They can continue to choose to ignore that fact, but doing so is just a disservice to the Wikia/Fandom community and allows some that do not have the best interests of the community to use the Wikia/Fandom name in a way that does not reflect positively on Wikia/Fandom.