Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-2240864-20181203165052/@comment-10502460-20181206063355

While I agree with many of the concerns on this thread (though I do think a couple are a bit paranoid), there are two things that Fandom still brings to the table for us. One, its features are extremely user-friendly despite their many flaws, and two, more importantly, Fandom/Wikia has a built-in network of communities that not many other places could give us. Like it or not, we still benefit from the fact that we are just one of many Fandom sites and thus can get cross-traffic and new users from other wikis, as well as ask them for help with stuff.

Many of our active members are active in other Fandom wikis and they only joined this wiki because it was another wiki they were interested in. If we created our own site, they would have to register new accounts just for that site, and I suspect many would not bother.

There are also other wiki farms or other sites we could try like Reddit, but each of those has its own issues. For example, Wikidot is extremely customizeable and has almost no staff left so we wouldn't be harassed over petty shit. But on the downside, the lack of staff means we would be on our own if shit ever really hit the fan, the high level of customization comes at the price of you basically having to be an intermediate-level CSS wizard to set up anything, and there are basically no large wikis left on Wikidot besides SCP, meaning we'd be a completely isolated community unless we wanted to recruit from them, and good luck with that. On top of that, in my experience Wikidot's community and messaging features are far less conducive toward wiki community building than the features on Fandom.

In the end I'd say once we get to the point where we need Fandom less than Fandom needs us, then we consider making a move. In the mean time I don't think there are many good options out there. We could try hitching onto Trollpasta Wiki's new site if and when they get it up and running, but if you haven't noticed they don't really like us very much.