User blog comment:Jenburton/The Values of Fandom: Community/@comment-954127-20161129104536

It seems that Wikia once again has lost it's way, or atleast got sidetracked. Wikia with its silly change in name to that silly Fandom term wants to "be" a social networking site. The simple truth is that most folks are going to continue using Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit for social networking and Wikia needs to accept where it's place is. You guy's get much more traffic if you'd work with the real social networking sites and with Wiki's that are using social networking sites.

Currently, it feels like Wikia's staff are way above the "fandom" they serve, really ignoring interaction with the common editor or user. This purchase of "Huddler" really shows how out of touch the core of Wikia's company is with the userbase.

Maybe if you'd work with the userbase instead, you'd get the value of knowing what we really want/use and what outsiders are looking for. But these recent blogs strike me as more talking down to the userbase. Without the userbase there would be no Wikia (aka Fandom), and everyone working at Wikia would have to go somewhere else.

The common thread that keeps the userbase here is being able to build wikis and enjoy what we built and share it with outsiders. I honestly have a hard time sharing articles cause I have to tell folks to turn on a adblocker in order to visit here due to crazy video ads. Then there is all this silly stuff on the top and bottom of a given article that leaves folks confused about the article and the wiki. See, wiki's should be their own thing, so when folks visit them they know that the editors made the wiki and it isn't just a corporate mess of a site.