Forum:Leaving wikia
well i think its time for the sims wiki to consider leaving wikia/fandom as the direction being taken by wikia is not suitable for a wiki.
recently they have brought in new notifications that make the place seem like facebook and they are very pushy with advertising. you can't view the sims wiki on an iphone anymore without an ad interrupting your viewing.
now they are doing portable infoboxes and everybody hates it. they even ban people from wikia if they dare speak up or interfere.
i love the sims wiki and think it deserves better than fandom. i think you should get some servers in, install mediawiki and fork the database from wikia and start a new.
you can find cheap servers on lowendbox.com. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.169.85.202 (talk • contribs) 21:52, May 14, 2017 (UTC) - Please sign your comments with ~~~~
Discussion
This is not the first time where we have considered forking from Wikia. An example of one such discussion can be found at Forum:New Wikia layout discussion. There are benefits to forking, sure, but do they outweigh the countless consequences? Not saying that I like Wikia's recent developments — quite the opposite, actually — but unfortunately Wikia's best business practice is opening their doors to seem like a great choice and then "trapping" users so they can't escape without paying the consequences. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 02:24, May 15, 2017 (UTC)
- Oh, and for the person curious about the "banning people for 'interfering'", w:Thread:1237595 and w:User blog:Ciencia Al Poder/Portable Infoboxes, the first step into Wikia taking control over our content make for some good reading. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 02:28, May 15, 2017 (UTC)