User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-39885705-20200831015244

PLEASE remember that most end users are NOT tech-heads or first-adopters who enjoy puzzling out a totally new UI in their copious free time. For some of us, a big UI change is enough to make the new platform impossible to use. I have had to give up on software and websites when their skins and UIs became so drastically different I could not re-learn to use them, or because they were designed to be incompatible either my browser, Firefox.

That said, the current Fandom skin does not play well with wide screens. The left and right margins create wide blank spaces due to an assumption there is less horizontal space than actually exists. The very thick bar pinned to the top of the page also gobbles up a vertical space that wide screens cannot spare. No, "zooming" out does not help, it just makes the text too small to read.

Reports that both Visual Editor and Source Code Editor have been eliminated, and replaced with some hybrid, especially worry me. There are many things I can only accomplish in Source Editor, and conversely I need the WYSIWYG aspect of Visual Editor to preview the changes I make. There is also a persistent error on the Babylon 5 Fandom where using the Source Editor on a page with any template on it will cause the editor to delete most of the page. So the Visual Editor is crucial to prevent that error.

I am also worried that with a different code base, we will have to learn a completely new code language to edit.