User blog:Gurte/Why I do not like FANDOM changes

MediaWiki was always my favorite software. It gives us many great features: editing pages, using talk pages and forums, many useful tags and templates and so on. But I can't stand current changes on FANDOM. The well-functioned Forums are replaced with Discussions, as well as Message Walls and comments. You will ask: do other wiki hosting services introduce the extensions which are not compatible with MediaWiki software? In fact, I have never seen other wiki services having extensions like Discussions. The extensions introduced by them are working on MediaWiki: WikiForum for example. This explains the reason why Discussions haven't become the full replacement of Forum and several communities, who had Forums migrated to Discussions, started actively using DPLForums. And I'm sure they will do this with new Message Walls and comments as well. All those Discussions-like features are hardly customizable. It is difficult to use JS/CSS for them. And there will be no Greetings on new Message Walls.

But Discussions is not the only change I don't like. Other such things are:
 * There is a new tool named Announcements which is intended to replace all the notification systems like Community Corner. But this tool is quite different: it notifies the wiki editors rather than readers, so it makes no sense to use it for news about a new film, game, series, episode etc. Besides, an editor gets an announcement regardless of the wiki s/he is visiting at the moment, and some users don't want to get the announcements from a definite wiki, but they can't unsubscribe them. As a result, Announcements are more intrusive than Forum highlights or Community Corner.
 * The new banner system is not so attractive as the old one, which was before Fan Feed was introduced. The previous banners were bigger and had a more pleasant look.
 * In the past FANDOM had other skins besides Oasis. I still don't understand why they decided to delete them. Wikipedia and other wiki sites keep various skins.
 * There were Wiki Answers, but they were deprecated.
 * The Uncyclopedia projects were kicked out of FANDOM (maybe it is better for them to use other skins).

I fear that many users, who started on FANDOM a long time ago, will be leaving this hosting due to the migration to the UCP. They cannot get used to this platform. As for me, I lose interest in FANDOM due to those changes.