Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-38517772-20201013160631/@comment-47011541-20201014005830

This is somewhat misleading... the reason customized code couldn't easily be micrated or ported to MediaWiki 1.33 is because of the longstanding neglect of updating the base MediaWiki engine which  made the task even harder and near impossible, since FANDOM didn't maintain the expertise to do the job anyway.

I know it’s misleading, but as I’m someone hasn’t been around as long as you have, I don’t have the same experience. I only said that because that was what I’ve gathered throughout my time here on Fandom, both as UpnCbs06 and Paramount1106. But okay, I should’ve done more research before typing that. You need to understand that editors have been accustomed to a certain feature set for near a decade and FANDOM demonstrated they deprioritized the comfort of existing users for their own priorities which make contributing much more difficult for those "volunteers" who are the basis for FANDOM's entire business. This is also true, and I understand the frustration of users when they hear that Chat and Forums were discontinued. However, again, I was only saying what I knew about the situation, which isn’t as much as you and I get that.