User blog comment:Hexarafi/Wikia.com will be renamed to fandom.com/@comment-1704071-20180819160533

Wow, just wow. This whole rebranding is very irritating and annoying.

Ditching Monobook entirely after moving it to solely for personal use was annoying as hell enough in my opinion (this editor is filled with clutter and a pain to use, even in rich text editor form), but this whole "Fandom" and rebranding is even worse.

I hate this absurd trend of "Modernising" sites, where they make so much unnecessary changes for the worse. Reddit recently changed their format but left their old design for those that prefer it (and yeah who knows how long before they abandon that). Youtube went through so many redesigns (after being bought by Google) over the years and became an integral part of Google. But unlike those two, Wikia is actually declining. I'd argue that they've been slowly declining since the Monaco skin controversy (which some wikis moved), until this whole rebranding which speeds things up a notch.

As for the whole non-pop culture wikia being abandoned, yeah, I can see this Wiki and others being sidelined. Hell, the constructed worlds wiki was abandoned when most of them moved elsewhere (found out about it after I went to revisit it as I was thinking of adding more to the conworld I had there); and looking at the recent changes there it is pretty much tumbleweeds passing by (and tiny activity overall).