User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first specifics on the Unified Community Platform/@comment-4780559-20191017101343

for wikis based around creating content, comments are an absolute necessity. on the wiki i frequent, fantendo, comments are everything. they're a way to engage, give ideas, provide feedback. i noticed that forums and message walls will thankfully be carried over, but there's no mention of that for comments. losing years of discussions would be absolutely devastating for our community.

i am cautious about what "more user friendly and more useful" means. i've never seen anyone complain about the current comment system, and i am concerned that this is yet another case where fandom will fix something that isn't broken. perhaps i'm being paranoid, but i'd like to say that removing features from the comments would be a bad idea. again, difficult to give proper feedback when we don't know what these replacements will be.