User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-27058814-20201207050442/@comment-27058814-20201207182949

If by "different needs" you mean unneccecary details, high usage of CSS and JS, and other bloat points then yes, they're different needs. Everything on Wikia can be implemented without requiring so much bloat, Miraheze is a good example as it has avatar systems and everything without requring so much RAM. On Malware Wiki and Wiibrew which are more intended as encyclopedias, they don't use a lot of RAM at all. The issue with this design is that it corrects none of those issues and in fact, may as well make RAM usage worse. If there was a minimal setup, sure I'd be down for that. But requiring more than 60MB of RAM just for a Wiki site? That's just stupid. Yes sure, you can say "welllllll uhhhh everybody haz 8gb ram nao lmaoooo" but if we can settle for Wikia using more than 150MB, what's to say you'll defend them if they have to require 500MB of RAM, maybe even a whole GB of RAM, just to display an article? It's absolutely insane how much resources websites have to use these days, and the last thing I need is to suddenly have to steal a computer from NASA just to display a Wikia article.