User blog comment:Godisme/Help protest the latest wikia feature/@comment-1393830-20111021215030

Well, more bad news. This is from the Community Council Wiki, where wikia tests their products in secret before letting us know about them. http://i.imgur.com/zzCpb.png. Message Walls will soon replace every talk namespace be it article, file, category or whatever. Having used the message walls a bit over at w:c:communitytest I find them to be a wholly ineffective means of communication. One of the lead developers on the walls said this when asked about facebook, "You are completely correct that Wikia is taking inspirations from Facebook. This product has many similarities to their wall. One of the biggest problems we were solving was that Talk Pages as a open canvas can be difficult to learn for newbies. With the wall, anybody can instantly understand the desired behavior at first glance - even if they've never used Facebook". I hate to bring it up again but I think a talk about our future on Wikia is in order again. Having talked so much with staff and knowing their plans for the future, at the moment I am far in favor of moving the site to a self hosted domain running MediaWiki. If anyone would like to talk about this in chat, leave me a message on my talk page and I will join in.