User blog comment:Mr.LuigiDude/Make Wikia Great Again/@comment-1142365-20160523234835

Wikia is especially prone to bugs because Wikia has effectively created a heavily customized version of MediaWiki 1.19 that they are trying to create new products for. These products have to work to some extent with an old version of core MediaWiki and being within such a constraint leads to a higher chance of bugs. Sure, better quality control, whatever that would be, might help, but bugs are always going to be a thing. Chat recently got a decent back-end update. It is possible that your chat may be slow in particular because of various CSS or JS that you use. In this case, it's not Wikia's fault, but your wiki's specific custom code. Wikia chat in general could be a much smoother experience, but it does its job, and so long as you refresh the chat frequently enough, it's pretty smooth. As has already been mentioned before, if you use emotes to censor words, you are encouraging users to use them, especially if they face no penalty because they ended up only posting an emote. Using an emote in this manner is equivalent to sweeping the problem under the rug. If your community has such a problem with users using derogatory terms that you need to censor them with emotes, then maybe it is better to ban these users? The ToU applies to every wiki, and if you feel that it is targeting LMR specifically, that is a particularly good indicator that the fault lies in local policy and not the ToU. Wikia is moving away from custom user rights and more towards standardized rights that provide adequately nuanced choices for all communities. Again, if you feel LMR is at a particular detriment by this, review local policy. There's no way to deal with this other than issuing more blocks. In some cases, VSTF or staff may be able to implement a range block that will mitigate the situation, but this is not always possible.
 * Bugs
 * Chat
 * ToU
 * User rights
 * Block evasion