User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Blogs are now available on the Unified Community Platform/@comment-4700688-20200819161053

I'm alarmed and appalled at what's happened here and frankly I'm placing this comment in the vague hope that the job simply isn't finished yet

On the wiki that I run, blogs and their comments are the life and soul of the place. It's the main thing that keeps us in touch over our wiki topic, a TV show that has been off the air for years. Our team of dedicated writers have written extremely lengthy blogs for no reward other than the comments they'd receive at the bottom.

Here's an example of one of our biggest blogs which had hundreds of highly engaged comments, the whole point of running the thing. It was a source of daily activity and I'm sure you can see this for yourself using your staff access: https://robotwars.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:ToastUltimatum/Rating_Every_Robot_Wars_Competitor_Name_Ever

Today in the new wiki update, every single blog comment disappeared. All of them. And I speak for everyone on our site when I say we are frightened that this is a permanent change. Frankly the fact that I'm able to comment here is the only evidence to the contrary. I'm more worried that blog posts now have talk pages - nobody wants to do something that formal just to share a quick thought on a blog post, surely this has to be a mistake.

So I have to act directly: are we getting our blog comments back? If the answer is no, I can't even begin to describe the frustration that will bring us. I can't believe that my only option is to sit here and cross my fingers tbat they may return, having made absolutely no backups, nor are we inclined to keep writing blogs if we can't have our comments! Please, please tell me this is a transitional period that will fix itself soon.