Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35927883-20200802130002/@comment-25014407-20200802162618

Websites have to change and adapt regularly to keep up with time. Not only does that apply to "back-end" (coding) things, for legal or privacy reasons, for example, but also user-facing changes. Examples are Google+ in the time of booming social media or YouTube Premium when a lot of companies were making premium streaming possible (Netflix). In the case of Fandom (or even Wikia), this wasn't done for years, so a lot of things had become very outdated. I think an analogy that Tupka likes to use is a car, say Fandom is like a Volkswagen Beetle, with broken parts being replaced with replacements parts that were just available, all from different brands and sizes. It still works as a car, but upgrades anywhere just are not possible. What Fandom is trying to do now is to recreate that car with the newest available technology, trying to keep the same structure, but reconsidering features that are not necessarily needed anymore. And yes, people are still used to that old car, mostly because of its sentimental value and they know how to handle it, but it's not possible for the creator to update or maintain it anymore. For the new version, they are able to get upgraded parts directly from the factory.