User blog comment:OrchidSomnium/Dear FANDOM Staff: About This Site and UCP/@comment-44721605-20201111132453

Many things like Find and Replace are built in MediaWiki editor. If you go and edit any Gamepedia page, you will see "a classic MW editor".

-Then there's the comments. One comment in the new UCP layout takes up about as much space as two comments did previously. They're larger than they need to be considering the giant box that now takes up more room than a single line of text does. If you were to remove this huge box though, there's actually nothing wrong with the comments specifically. The way they're handled however, is a different story.

While I understand the fact that they're no longer built within the MediaWiki engine, it seems weird that they don't support wikicode So feeds are not based on any wiki engine. If you wanted to do that, try using WikiWikiWeb as your wiki engine. MediaWiki engine is really difficult to maintain, as there are only 8 developers + contributors, who develop this. It us unknown, how big profits are, but many bugs are really slowly fixed. Discussions are based on this and comments wirh message walls too. Yes, it is possible with help of Gamepedia's message walls to allow some-what wikitext, it is really hard to get it working properly with Feeds.

- Something else that I've noticed a couple times now, sporadically but still fairly commonly, is that the editor just doesn't load at times. I assume it's a glitch but regardless, it's still a major flaw. Especially when this glitch is lumped together with the UCP update's almost-universally negative reception and the staff's fairly-frequent ignoring of their community's reception of features, it feels almost as if Wikia is purposefully trying to get people to stop supporting them.

Wiki editor is a 2010 version of it. This is like 2nd major release, besides classic wiki editor. Yes, to be honest, 2017 editor is really bad and annoying, even for Wikipedia users. When i was editing there, like a year and half ago, i used it for few weeks, but it is not great, as it lacks some features.

And then we come to my biggest, and longest-standing issue with FANDOM powered by Wikia: the content. When my browser is in its full size, there's a solid 10-15% of the screen that is completely empty, with only the image of the background visible. This leaves a large amount of space that could be filled with the page's contents. Even more if the sidebar was removed or condensed somewhat. For some reason, Wikia's desire to be all of a news aggregator, social media site, and online encyclopedia host has pushed the former two into the spotlight and the latter out of it... despite that being the entire reason anyone uses this site. And this has always, always been my main issue with Wikia. The Monobook skin gave the content much more room to spread out over the screen of a computer, and I loved that. Since Monobook has been removed, Wikia as a whole has honestly felt quite claustrophobic. With how clunky everything about the new UCP update feels, this claustrophobic feeling has only grown stronger.

Because this skin is Oasis? Well, this will change, so you can be happy. The truth is many users (including me) are concerned about this skin, as it was pushed to wiki communities, and monobook removed.

+, you cannot just say Vector/Hydra. Yes, they are from visual perspective pretty much sane, but try understanding, that without Hydra, heading will be broken, Fandom footer will be not-converted wiki text, and mist styles will just stop working.