Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-168424-20200113195549

FANDOM's dev group is also kind of a mess and that is a key part of the problem. Forum, Message Walls, and Comments are all integrated with the MediaWiki engine, but were not designed for mobile, maintenance, or security in mind. FANDOM dev is mostly a black box, but they have obviously had a bunch of turnover and what little MediaWiki expertise they had they lost. The Curse acquisition probably returned some expertise, but they had the power to say they didn't want to refactor old code and they likely have almost no knowledge of the FANDOM code base.

They've had plenty of time to refactor Forum, but they chose early on not to do it. The idea that they would lose money refactoring Forum is mostly a self-fulfilling prophecy and was not likely true when they first decided to kill it (which was years ago now).