Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-43929746-20200904090001/@comment-9605025-20200904113122

Here is a re-wording that I think conveys a more accurate timeline of events. "Classic infoboxes" are tables that users created with a certain layout. However, like most other things on wikis, they didn't always look good on mobile. They often also had a lot of markup that confused new editors. Fandom decided to resolve both issues by introducing "portable infoboxes" which are now referred to as simply "infoboxes".

These new infoboxes use a Fandom-custom markup to reduce the amount of formatting information users need to provide to nearly nothing. As such, they have also developed a graphical editor that can be used for simpler infoboxes. This lowers the difficulty for new editors even further.