User blog:Drew1200/An Apology...

Hey guys, I owe you all an apology. To everyone who has decided to not move to the new wiki... I am not going to use this blog to promote the new wiki in anyway. It's just kind of a long apology...

When this idea first came up to move at the beginning of the year, I was also very hesitant for the same reasons everyone here is. But instead of basing my decision off of that, I decided to do more research into it. I was able to do some research in order to form my opinion on it, and I resulted in the opposite conclusion than you guys. I realized that having our own site would simply give us the single benefit of having freedom. I really didn't know if the new site would be really good, or really bad, but I learned that we would have the freedom to always be able to improve it, no matter how good it got. This wiki, however, has just about reached it's peak. There's really not too many more ways to customize it, we would just be stuck with the same things until Wikia came out with something new, probably something else like Message Walls.

One of the most important things that makes wikis special to me is that you can customize and change them in so many different ways. I know dozens of other users who love that same thing. One of the things I dislike about Wikia is that they limit that. This isn't anything against Wikia, they really have no way of allowing it. But, this was really the main reason I decided I wanted to move. Now, the site is fully functional. It was even better than I had expected, so I could not wait to move. It made it all the better that we were going to be able to make the new site even better over time. I honestly have not been that excited in a long time...

Then, all the fights at this wiki begun to happen. Many of the users who had voted to move suddenly changed their minds, and decided to stay because some of their friends were. The more that decided to stay, the more other users wanted to stay because of their friends staying. Eventually, it was just down to one large group of users moving, instead of the whole community. We really were actually going to have a community split. You could imagine my disappointment when I read all of this. Not only were there so many users who had decided not to move, but we were also going to end up having the community split. Just as I had never been more excited about the move, I have never been so upset about the community not taking advantage of what I saw as such an amazing opportunity. I really cannot explain how disappointed I was, and still am.

So you may be able to see how I was tempted to not respect people's decisions, and to even be rude about it, but that really is no excuse. I still believe that the new wiki would be a much better place for this community, but if you guys here do not want that, then that's okay. I apologize for the rude things I have said to some of the users here, and I apologize to everyone for continuing to try and get people to move. I know how annoying it can be when people say things over and over, or when they over-advertise something, and I have been doing that myself. So, I am really sorry to all of you.

Drewlzoo