User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first specifics on the Unified Community Platform/@comment-214161-20191017190002

As someone who didn't often use comments (in favour of discord and talk pages), this is actually a great insight into the problem from Fandom wikis' point of view; for example I always wondered how those strange "pages" appeared on links or history pages. While I never really used them much, it definitely made the platform feel more like other social networks. Perhaps it even eased new editors into the experience of using a wiki, or for others made it feel more accessible. On the other hand it was often embarrassing coming back to Fandom wikis (from say Wikipedia), and seeing them not perform up to more modern standards of performance and design, so I'm heavily in favour of the upgrade to 1.33.

I am definitely interested to see what the replacement would be. For example, the default option of talk pages are quite alien compared to other discussion methods, and upgrading them would also need custom coding. But definitely doesn't sound easy trying to conceive of and design a good replacement, let alone code it in.

Whatever happens thanks for the updates and clear communication Mr Woodhouse :)