Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-20644-20180423192744/@comment-9782468-20180424154554

Brandon Rhea wrote: And to address your question about community involvement, we very strongly believe that one way we can keep that success going is with user involvement. We hope to be more proactive about that moving forward, but we have spoken about that quite a bit on Community Central. If you're not subscribed to the FANDOM Staff Blog, I'd encourage you to subscribe. I took a look at your string of topics.

It seems that even when the community doesn't want a certain feature implemented, their concern is vaguely addressed and then ignored.

For example, the migration of Forums to Discussions. A user in your links asked why Fandom was so intent on changing it. The only response they received was

'''Discussions is simply a more modern area for community conversation. Forum is not something we can continue to maintain and make it suitable for the future. Just like on wikis, organization and usage vary from community to community, with moderation and leadership as the key to success.''' - BertH

Just vague statements that don't answer the question. And when the user told @BertH that the reply was vague and asked for them to elaborate, they never received a reply.

So tell me, how exactly would we as users get involved with Fandom in any way that mattered? It seems even the users trying to voice their concerns in the links you provided don't have their concerns heard.

Be transparent and it'd be easier for me as a user to understand your want for these changes, but all these fluffy and vague responses we generally get from Fandom just makes it harder for me to want to change something that has been working well for us.