User blog comment:Roads/Move?/@comment-20644-20120314173241/@comment-20644-20120314204506

These aren't insurance policies. Even in spite of the downsides, many wikis have chosen to leave. Obviously I don't want to see you or this wiki leave, but it is important to let you know of the downsides to leaving.

For example, the Fallout Wiki here on Wikia forked and moved to a new host. The new wiki is currently the fourth search result on Google, with the Wikia wiki occupying the first three spaces. That's because of the search engine advantages of having a wiki on Wikia, and because the Wikia wiki had already established itself very strongly before they forked.

That's not something we do to prevent forks. It's simply an advantage of being on Wikia.