Thread:Drew1200/@comment-25285546-20150107200209/@comment-25625534-20150108072326

there is literally no good reason to move. this has been discussed to death already, i'd suggest you go look at some of the older discussions from TWO FREAKING YEARS AGO if you want some of that drama.

basically moving would involve getting the very large majority of the community to agree to move, drop their accounts and everything they've done here, make a new one for brickimedia, then get used to that entire site. lol, not gonna happen.

in addition to that there's the challenge of moving almost 3,800 articles over. that would take weeks or months and what's the point? they already exist here, obviously, the editors know how to make them, format them, etc etc, and it's a good, efficient system. on brickimedia they're going to get less exposure, the editors will have to adjust to that system, etc etc and why? is there any huge benefits that make all this effort worth it? is the brickimedia system better or faster or what? and there's no way to avoid the fact that there's going to be a hell of a lot less traffic coming the way of brickimedia lmbw and a hell of a lot more coming the way of wikia lmbw. so basically we'll be catering to a smaller audience, with little chance of expanding that until brickimedia becomes really established, which will take years, if it even happens.

that's not to mention the fact that the lmbw is 95% community-based. most of us here (~75%) aren't editors, probably at least half don't browse the mbs anymore, and a small amount don't even have accounts. some didn't even know about the mbs before joining. so the way chat and talking to each other works is vitally important. is the chat better than wikia's? are there message walls or talk pages, and are they better than wikia's? are there blogs, and are they better than wikia's? is navigating through these kind of things easier than on wikia?

from what i've seen of brickimedia it's wikia with a smaller community, a much smaller and less adept staff, worse looking css, a much more bland chat, harder to navigate pages...

so basically the only advantages i can see is that the entire thing is controlled by the community (a very small part, but still, the community.) so they can adjust everything. who knows, maybe eventually brickimedia might be really good and popular and whatever. but right now there's no way it's "superior" enough to wikia to go the effort of moving.