User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Introducing Unification, FANDOM's next big initiative/@comment-27780164-20181102013904/@comment-31955138-20181103002101

The ToUs ban many user activities some of which are at the discretion of Wikia to determine if you have violated them. Further the ToUs state "We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or delete portions of this Agreement at any time and without further notice." and further goes on to encourage users to "check this page regularly." Have you been checking the ToUs regularly because I know I haven't?

But this isn't odd: to say that companies make ToUs that benefit them as much as possible is like saying the internet exists. No one is saying Wikia isn't allowed to change the service we are just saying Wikia shouldn't. Now, these blog posts clearly serve no purpose except to try and stem community grief and to give Wikia the ability to say look we told you this was happening and you were quite entitled to make any suggestions or protests at the appropriate time.

The changes to the URL move wikis from the position of having a bar at the top which can be called the Fandom FANDOM bar (as they have a fan feed and an unused live chat Live! Chat) to one where FANDOM is part of their URL. A URL in most cases is the same as the websites name so it changes from being a rebrand of Wikia’s ‘wiki finding’ features to a rebrand of all wikis.

As for why I stick around, there is that I am a member of several communities that are deeply linked to Fandom and on some of them I am not even admin. Another reason is that it is a shame to see such a great wiki host turn into yet another BuzzFeed wannabe.