Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-4544033-20150329010905/@comment-1251315-20150329193548

Cheatcodechamp wrote: I bring up weaker connection because I have seen and heard several people complain about lag and other issues. Game has had it crash on him often, as have most of us have that problem at least once. Seeing as I have never had the IRC crash, nor do I recall anybody complaining about it crashing, I find it more stable. Gamino's issues with chat are because he uses satellite broadband which is affected by weather and is therefore completely different in every way to normal broadband from fixed lines: the way it is written makes it sound like if your connection is slow, it won't work, which is nonsense. Barring random crashes (which haven't happened for quite some time now, because Wikia are actually trying to solve the chat stability issues), there's no issues with Wikia chat, as well as the wikia chat being more convenient to access for a large portion of users and also keeps people from clicking off-site and potentially not coming back to the wiki to contribute.

Unlike the Wiki chat, the IRC can connect to other chats and boards, many are not chats but games. We used to have UNO and a trivia. I am pretty sure that the fallout wiki has a nuka-bot that plays Russian roulette. I will be honest and say at this time, that UNO is gone, but if we asked we could get it fixed again. Let's not ask anything of the sort. It's bad enough we're giving reasons for users to launch an off-wiki system that isn't controlled by Wikia, giving them reasons to play games will just kill the entire wiki off entirely. No offence, but I have experience in the field of keeping users engaged with a community: IRC absolutely is not going to get people engaged with the wiki, it will make people leave it.

I didn't consult the wiki because we already had the IRC, it was just missing the bots. It was still in use, and it is not intended to replace the chat. Even so, it was something that should really have been discussed with the community first, there is no point promoting something that nobody will use.

I wanted to give people a second option and to fix a chat we had used in the past that I myself prefer because the wiki chat drops more then I find reasonable. That's fine and well, but very few users have issues with the wikia chat, as you later pointed out. If there's a problem in some way with the chat and it affects your ability to use it, you report it to Wikia: it's a labs feature and you are supposed to report problems you find with it to them via Special:Contact/bug. There's no way it will leave the Labs section of WikiFeatures if there are users finding problems with it.

Sorry if I sounded rude in my previous post, but I feel that it is written in a way to suggest that people should stop using the Wikia Chat and promotes the IRC being better, despite the fact the majority in the community use the Wikia Chat. And frankly, no offence here, but we should be working more to promote editing, not promoting things that discourages editing. :/