Talk:Wikia v ShoutWiki

Future deletion of wikis and business model
It seems like Shoutwiki and Wikia have essentially the same business model. The only difference is that Wikia is the incumbent and large company, while Shoutwiki is fighting for its share of the cake. I honestly believe the people at Shoutwiki want to be nice, and that they will delete wikis at their communities' request for the next 1-2 years. But once Shoutwiki gets into the position Wikia is in right now, business considerations will trump.

The moral is: Keep ownership of your domain name and trademark, and make sure you don't use too many proprietary extensions, and have a fallback plan how to recover your user database. (Ideally, all that should even be owned by a non-profit, not the admins personally.) That said, by all means, let Shoutwiki run the servers. They seem to be hard-working and good server admins. Ownership and contracts are about keeping business partners honest, not about controlling them.

--Tjr 16:22, 14 January 2011 (UTC)