Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-30302124-20190129013343/@comment-1429792-20190130221113

Ah yes, the url thing was not among Fandom's brightest decisions as far as a wiki like this is concerned (what is!?). At least typing in Bleach.wikia.com still works and I don't think theyre getting rid of that (short to mid term anyway, never say never especially with a company going through changes like buying and merging with other companies (Curse)). But it sends out the wrong message for us. It flies in the face of what we have built.

I think the staff probably got the same points said to them so many times by so many different people its easy to fall in giving stock answers, especially if you have years worth of the same stuff - I used to do that a lot on this wiki cause it was so predictable what people would come up with and said it in light of other people being able to read it - sort of answering everyone else' questions before they asked me a different version of the same thing. But as you say, its not nice to be on the receiving end of that. How can you feel like your being taken seriously instead of just fobbed off?

Good news though - I checked and Discussions is no longer offered as a feature that wiki admins can turn on. Hard to proceed with replacing a feature when they don't let people use the new one. Put that together with the lack of visible updates to it and.....

Here's hoping that any future update to forums/etc works well for the people who actually make a wiki what it is rather than just those who want to talk about it's topic. It shouldn't be one or the other, they should be able to make a feature that can work well for both (says the non-technical guy).