User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Wiki domains will be changing from wikia.com to fandom.com in early 2019/@comment-5785681-20180823191815

I'm beginning to think that the whole purpose of this change has nothing to do with improving the site and everything to do with turning the site into the "new and improved" FB with pre-set topics as the draw for users. Top brass may not care if "FANDOM" loses topics, meaningful discussion between fans, and self-verified knowledge about the topics covered. As long as it retains enough topics covered in "good enough" depth to generate income, all is well, right? As long as advertisers fund the bottom line, that's who calls the shots.

Sad to say, the days of Wiki being what it used to be are gone and as newer, younger editors take the helm (who don't know or care about wiki history), it won't matter bc the new format will be all they know. That's how real life works, like it or not. That's business. Maybe top brass will change the structuring a bit, but it will be minor since these plans were developed quite a while back with a long-term rollout schedule that anticipated flack along the way. They may even be moving to a business model with editors being paid on some sort of commission basis. IDK, but it could happen. Anything could, really.

In the end, "FANDOM" will become obsolete, as all social media sites do. It's small comfort but, hey, I'm not a shareholder. I'm just a volunteer editor who's seeing how this all plays out. Sometimes, it's nice to be charge and, sometimes saying IDGAF is soooo liberating.

Angelle aka Luxartisan 19:18, August 23, 2018 (UTC)