Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33168089-20170821015513/@comment-26923519-20170821041605

Let me express my opinions about Lucy, aka the FANDOM Creator, whatever it likes to be called.

I myself am neutral with this experiment, because it isn't in its final state yet. A good thing about it is its clean and consistent UI. It looks pretty modern, to say the least, but the FANDOM-colored elements should suit the wiki's color theme, like the WDS-buttons should have the color of other buttons. I do also like that it can be loaded very quickly, which is another plus.

However, I highly disagree with the fact that this will replace the source editor. I do see why source mode is not needed for the FANDOM Creator, but the source editor should be kept for many reasons, like template/MediaWiki editing, main page editing, source mode features in articles like collapsing etc. Sure, source editor looks old, but it's gold and has good functionality. It can receive a few more tools in the toolbar and maybe a new interface to make it look minimal and modern. If anything, I personally think Lucy should be an upgrade to the rich-text editor.

Another flaw is the lack of categorization. Anybody else thought categories were a very important part of the wiki and the navigation bar of the page header? I bet all of us do and this is very important for readers too, if they want to browse by categories. The problem? They removed the category module on the bottom. While this removes/reduces redundancy, the categories on the article header do not have a button for adding more categories, and the editor doesn't have an option to add categories either, making categorization very difficult.