User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first specifics on the Unified Community Platform/@comment-4018164-20191018141812

Hi, thank you for the update. I just wanted to ask questions about 2 parts of the update: By the way, sorry for the long message- i was just curious. I actually haven't been tuned regarding recent updates, so i apologeize if these have already been answered in previous blogs.
 * 1) What sort of Message Wall/Special:Forum substitude is going to be? I mean, in their core, talk pages/original forum were essentially a namespaced page that you can archive/lock (respectively) when it gets too long, whereas Message Wall and Special:Forum are based namespaced subpages of the original post for every reply. So i'm just concerned about whether the updated design come over the issues that made Wikia decide to now remove them, and not create new technical problems that will require a new redesign in a few years from now.
 * 2) About search results, will there be filtering options to use "non-holistic" results? I'm wondering, because while the search feature you described seems like a great way for research, especially across gaming/literature/tv communities, sometimes having the search engine return all sorts of related results is a bit annoying when you know what you are looking for, thereby making specified searches tideous at times. I mean, sometimes it feels to me like the Wikia search engine returns too many unrelated results, or sometimes (in Thread:/Board thread:/MediaWiki: namespaces in the filtering options) no results at all.