Angela Beesley hasn’t been associated with Wikia since 2012. I don’t know when this happened to you but the site has gone through a lot of ownership changes over the years.

And I don’t care what else Jimmy Wales has done, for profit or otherwise — Wikipedia is a goddamn gift and the world would be hurt tremendously if it ever shut down. It’s probably the only non-profit I donate to regularly.

Wikia was never actually good, but they were never this bad, as when they sold out to some capital and start squeezing every penny from every pixel on the screen.

Right now, fandom.com is basically unusable. Unfortunately, as some info that is there is nowhere else.

As long as people keep giving their free time to private websites who host the content they create ransom, it'll continue.

I never realized wikia was so closely connected to the wikimedia. I'm a bit shocked.

Who in tech do you hold up as an ideal persona? I'm not defending what happened to you. It's surprising to me that even someone like Jimmy Wales, who pioneered the most impactful knowledge-sharing project in the world, is vilified by some people.

> Who in tech do you hold up as an ideal persona?

For me it is mjg59 and maybe Miguel de Icaza, also maybe Linus Torvalds

Kelsey Hightower

No one. Every name I can think of has had some great ideas, and some truly cockeyed are-you-kidding-me-seriously" moments.

Even legendary names are just humans. TBL and his support for DRM. LT's notorious personality. Page & Schmidt and completely losing sight of the helpfulness they started from.

Worship / revere / appreciate no one. Filter their good, acknowledge their bad, find a path past them to something better, and know you'll probably be corrupted by something along the way unless you somehow transcend your own DNA.

Tim Berners-Lee