User blog comment:Toughpigs/Wikia's new Forum demo/@comment-781424-20120727194532/@comment-781424-20120728070949

Thank you for your answers, Danny. They're relieving to hear.

I had a lot of worries over the un-wiki direction Wikia took off in. Mandatory visual editor, problems with search and indexing, blog reverse chronology, @ThreadComment page names in RSS feeds etc. All of this was not inspiring, to say the least. However, the picture is starting to look coherent now, with Wikia becoming something unique. With the new forums, and some of the aforementioned problems being addressed, the general direction of Wikia's development looks positive now.

The forums appear to be the last missing piece of the new communication ecosystem. If I understand the situation right, when this development is complete, Wikia will be tempted over a decision to enforce the whole system across all sites for the sake of consistency. I think it'll be a good thing, but please, leave the blogs out of it. Let wikis opt out of using blogs, or even better, let go of the development time spent on the blogs, and globally ditch them in favor of the forums. The blog layout is absolutely awful, and they are completely redundant in the presence of the new forums.

Otherwise, I'm looking forward to the new development. Thanks for taking time to communicate with the users.