Wikia meltdown: layoffs, ...the numbers don't look promising either.... Options

[the fieryangel]

Or so sez Valleywag :

A source who has seen Wikia's numbers says the company is experiencing "a hemorrhaging of cash circa 1999" — losses, in other words, like the first generation of dotcoms.

Everybody's doing layoffs these days, but venture capital is becoming scarce....It's probably not a good sign.

Jimbo really needs to have some professional stills done by a good photographer and ditch these candid shots. The one on this article is particularly bad.

[Krimpet]

We already saw the rise and fall of dozens of advertising-supported free web hosts circa 2002; they were proven to be nigh-unprofitable. (Anyone remember FortuneCity, Xoom, or NBCi? Probably not. ) It's not surprising free wiki hosting like Wikia would go the same way - it's like those free web hosts of yore, but with unlimited storage space and bandwidth.