User blog comment:75x/The Move to Brickimedia - My Thoughts/@comment-33628828-20130417205743

You're forgetting one of the sides on the ad argument. It is true that less ads makes the site more attractive to viewers, but it doesn't effect editors really. What does effect editors is the money that both ads generate. On Wikia, that money goes to paying salaries to their 100+ staff. On Brickimedia, that money gets funneled into projects which benefit all of the wikis we host. These projects include contests, upgrading servers, perhaps even small contracts to get us a good chat finally (though the one we have now is much better than the first :P)

Speaking of chat, it is different. That doesn't mean it's bad. True, we still need to move over LMBW emoticons and add the toolbar so you can get chat in a popup or on any page, but the chat itself isn't bad. You're used to this one, but it is much easier to actually chat on the new site's chat - avatars beside every message ensures that the chat doesn't move at lightning-speed. Oh, did I mention that with the chat on Brickimedia, you can actually make more chatrooms without needing to use a hack like on here? These new chatrooms are fully functional (but temporary), and also make the creator a mod in them for now anyway.