Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26339491-20180810233208/@comment-26339491-20180816224029

BeBeYouTiful wrote: Hey, Mira, I have an idea. Fandom basically runs on people who use it, right? How about you leave the discision of new updates to all the communities as a whole and let THEM vote.

In a way, we are doing that. FANDOM makes money exclusively through ads, and for that to work, we need lots and lots of people to visit FANDOM. That's why we're trying to make those changes and improvements that bring the most users to us, and that's why, for example, we're putting such a strong emphasis on mobile-friendly content. More people go online with their phones these days than with their laptops, and we want to appeal to them.

That is different from letting individual communities dictate what features we should build, though. One or even dozens of communities wanting something specific doesn't necessarily mean that most users on FANDOM want it or would use it if we built it. A lot of research, data and testing goes into the changes we make.

That doesn't guarantee that we always get it right, but we do listen to all the feedback we get from all our communities combined and try to accommodate their collective needs as well as the needs of our advertisers and the needs of those people who don't edit on FANDOM but come to read the content.

If you want to talk more about the upcoming domain change, please leave your comments underneath that blog post linked above. Someone who is working on that can respond to all your questions there!