User blog comment:Dopp/Updates to How We Search/@comment-26744861-20120428215220

Honestly this update has made life on Wikia an awful lot harder.

I'm seriously getting bored with editing URLs just to get to a Special: page - especially if I need to see logs of blocks, deletions etc. The search bar before this update was an easier way to get to those pages and now I'm having to go the longer route with everything. It's also frustrating if I look for one particular page and I'm hit with a screen saying that the page exists. It's not only frustrating but it's actually time-wasting.

Wikia, if you don't want people complaining about everything you do then you need to be more open with and more thoughtful about the community and their wishes. You could have at tested this on another wiki and asked for feedback before forcing it upon everyone; the fact that you've forced a broken tool upon users of Wikia is what has aggravated a lot of people. The more you ignore the community and their feedback, the smaller your userbase will become, which will make Wikia an unattractive target for advertising - which is where the vast majority of your revenue comes from.