User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first specifics on the Unified Community Platform/@comment-33688999-20191018183441/@comment-5645428-20191018235111

It appears that an obscure feature has been used for a long long time for the wrong purpose on that wiki. I would say to be prepared for a worst case outcome that all those blogs inevitably get culled.

I wasn’t around when the blog feature was created but it was part of Wikia’s old forays into social enhancements. Don’t cite me for accuracy, but I think first there were user profile mastheads and avatars, which helped develop more recognisable identities for users. Then I think article comments came to substitute talk pages in a way more friendly for basic users. This feature was then adapted into blog feeds, which would similarly substitute wiki-style forums and be a more convenient means to communicate, most specifically for Wikia itself on Community Central, which it continues to do today. I think this is the biggest reason blog posts still exist today. Message walls, followed by the forum, which are further advancements of the same core feature that started with article comments, virtually replaced all the relevant functionally offered by blogs, which at that point perhaps should of had a migration of its own.

Blogs didn’t even get a mention in this announcement. Maybe when article comments are updated/ported somehow, blogs will receive receive a similar kind of preservation. If not, I imagine Fandom would manually port their blogs to wherever they intend to centralise their announcements. Other wikis might have to do so themselves, but I imagine the majority of wikis using blogs have not splurged on them like the BFDI Wiki. They should have switched to using the forum feature years ago, and have probably wound up in a position that may need to be owed special attention.

Keep in mind that this is solely informed speculation.