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Digifiend wrote: SmallerOnTheOutside wrote: Depressing, but true enough. Still it's been around for 8 years already. Not bad, eh? I'd guess he was joking. This is a wiki, if the current staff leave, someone new will just take over. Wikia are notorious for not letting wikis die. Remember what happened to Wikisimpsons? They left Wikia, the existing wiki became a fork with new staff instead of getting shut down. This wiki's only going offline if Wikia itself goes bust. No, I'm not joking. I do think it likely that Wikia itself will go bust, or they will change the underlying software, or some other seismic shift in internet technology will occur. I mean, it's a challenge these days just to get a proper desktop computer from a retail outlet. By 2023, I think it's at best a 50/50 proposition that Wikia will be around in its current form. You can already tell that they would love to get rid of MediaWiki if it were at all possible to do so while retaining the content.