User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The future of Chat/@comment-28792907-20200805193712/@comment-28792907-20200805195244

Those may be benefits, but everything you mentioned would not have been a problem if Wikia / Fandom had bothered to keep their software up to date with MediaWiki. It probably would have saved the development team time overall by not having to focus on things like developing discussions, but I could be wrong on that. Regardless, surely you must see that all these features being defunct is a poor message to send to the editors on desktops (although I know you would never be allowed to admit that even if you believe it deep down). These are the users who develop the majority of the content on this site that your company gets ad revenue off, and who makes up a significant minority of readers. I completely understand the reasoning for it but this all seems as though Fandom are trying to rush this through, without having features ready for the UCP wikis. Sorry for this rant, but as someone who uses chat relatively often on a wiki I am active on, this announcement did not please me.