Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-24006128-20200612173803/@comment-134861-20200616155727

MisterWoodhouse wrote: KrytenKoro wrote: https://community.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:MisterWoodhouse/The_first_migrations_to_the_Unified_Community_Platform#comm-1893681

Can y'all take a look into this? There's some pretty fundamental bugs with the new editing interface, that I'm unclear how they haven't been caught already.

Some of the "bugs" you list are design changes, not bugs. We're using the newest editor from the Wikimedia Foundation, who make the software our wikis run on. Article Comments was rebuilt on different software to eliminate an update conflict.

We also opted not to port Wiki Activity, going with the core Recent Changes instead. It is an issue which we have received a lot of feedback on and we're analyzing that feedback now.

The required popup feedback has been heard loud and clear. We're analyzing that feedback now. I'm not sure why you brought up WikiActivity, that wasn't one of my complaints.

Only one of the complaints I made was about aesthetics (the article comments thing). The rest of them were all about how these changes, whether intentional or not, significantly bog down editing or obfuscate information and introduce additional, unnecessary steps where things could previously be done in a single step -- which is exponentially worsened by the load times each step takes. I've also just discovered that you guys added two-three steps between the source editor and the "show changes" window (which was also renamed?), which considering the abysmal load times is also bewildering.

"We're using the newest editor from the Wikimedia Foundation, who make the software our wikis run on."

-- as far as I can tell, none of the issues that I brought up are present on Wikimedia Commons. The inability for anon users to view file descriptions and licensing (which wasn't in my list of complaints but, isn't that illegal per fair use law?) is also not present on that site. Can you please clarify what wikimedia sites use an editor with the features I'm pointing out?