User blog comment:Withersoul 235/My Problems With UCP/@comment-45252479-20200825064654

I completely agree; profile mastheads and message walls are now so bad. It's not possible to close them without deleting the thread entirely, and wikitext is actually quite important in messages (for instance, linking the rules to someone). The pinging system for discussions has never been that good (and discussions in general either, Special:Forum is better), with there being no indication of which posts have unread replies, and importing this for message walls too is a terrible idea. Another trait of discussions that it's bad to add on message walls/article comments, is the 'view more messages' button; the old tab system is also much more convenient to navigate. Also Recent Changes is waay harder to navigate, I agree. Last objection is, it used to be easy to link individual threads, i.e. Thread: but now you have to copy-paste the whole URL which can be painful at times.