User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Wiki domains will be changing from wikia.com to fandom.com in early 2019/@comment-36497720-20180816164033

This change is terrible. I'll give three reasons.

1. The change will likely get Wikia less traffic.

If I were to search up a topic such as "Minecraft" and saw a website called "minecraft.fandom.com", I'd probably think it's a forum and probably wouldn't go there. If I saw a website called "minecraft.wikia.com" I would quickly realise that it is a Wikipedia about Minecraft, and would go there.

2. The change could be disturbing in some cases.

A few users, including myself, have provided examples of this already. An online fandom is a fanbase of a certain topic. People would think that there are fans of CANCER if they found a site called cancer.fandom.com.

3. It doesn't suit Wikipedia-based sites.

It doesn't suit Wikipedia based sites. "wikia.com" implies that the site would be a Wikipedia based site, but "fandom.com" would make people think that the site is a forum or something, like I said in #1.

TL;DR - this change is awful and would probably decrease the number of Wikia users.