User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Pausing UCP migrations to resolve some critical blockers/@comment-454133-20200831161802/@comment-43596541-20200902184258

@MisterWoodhouse I suppose the final solution will be either to design a new integrated "enhanced" Recent Changes or more likely the addition of "Feeds  Recent Activity" ... If not already the case, surveying some Admins of smaller Wikis when the solution is in Beta may alleviate the immense negative reaction the switch to a "WikiMedia standard" page had for migrated Wikis. On the hand the long term vision of using a standard package and only maintaining  nonly essential bolt-ons is perfectly as it will reduce "feature stagnation" in the future (and ease up any integration of entities similar to FANDOM/Gamepedia (^)  )

For less "involved" Admins & Editors, especially not involved in Community Central,  like our sister Wiki admin, the sudden change although a "technical feature" appeared like a bug since prior to migration Comments were showing in "Recent Changes" and then abruptly stopped. For us the Activity to Changes switch was merely a format issue. I got some heat for calling the "Recent Changes technical feature" a bug, but that's what it looked like to end users, especially when adding  "Talk" filters showed only Comments prior to the migration.

I don't envy your design Team  who now have to reproduce the Wiki Database "structure" of Wiki/Page/Comment-thread in the "Discussions" format that seem to lacking indexing and structure capabilities if I judge by the "Discussions" we have on our Wiki.

Whie you're working on the solution, do you think this new "Discussions/Comments" interface will include a "search / filter option" allowing us to finally be able to "open-text search" on Comments  ? Search by Date, User, Page / Tags, etc ...