User blog:Techhead7890/The long march of the merger

I'm glad to see Brandon Rhea is communicating clearly and calmly about the changes as this merger continues (and seeing the staff treat it as a merger and not just a straight up acquisition). While there is still a lot of ground to cover, it is pleasing to see the right steps are being taken towards reconciliation. (I just hope that they update their wiki software on the fandom/wikia domains at some stage...!)

Here's an excerpt from one of the comments regarding this, by the way:


 * Now that we’re all one company I just want to take a moment to acknowledge this [communications issue]. I’ve had this conversation a bit with some Gamepedia users, and I want to make sure it gets said here on Central too.


 * When we announced that Fandom and Curse were coming together, the deal had been signed but was not yet final. There’s a TON that had to be done with a lot of care between signing and close. Given the nature of such a large deal in progress, most of our public communications needed to be vetted by all parties—not just Fandom and Curse—leading to a set of pre-approved responses that were designed ahead of time with your questions in mind.


 * That’s not the way I or anyone on staff wants to communicate, and it won't be how we communicate 99.9% of the time. It was an awkward way to reply to comments, so I understand why anyone was frustrated by it.

February 24 by Brandon Rhea (f. staff)