Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-11700523-20160502214915/@comment-452-20160502223233


 * No.
 * Yes.
 * Yes.
 * Yes.

These are all questions the developers/designers should have asked themselves during the design phase of the project, but apparently they didn't think it through.

The core idea of a wiki is that anyone can edit, and anything can be undone. With Maps, they went for "anyone can edit, including delete", and "nothing can be undone". I suspect that they didn't actually create Maps themselves, they just stole it from somewhere else and tacked it on here.

The maps log itself was an afterthought - originally you couldn't even tell who deleted the map.

There should have been a "history" page, and the ability to rollback to an arbitrary map revision, but there isn't. Anyone can delete any pin, and there isn't anything you can do about it.

I mentioned this oversight to Wikia many times, and after a particularly nasty case of vandalism, I contacted Wikia Staff to roll it back, and they don't even have the tools to do so.

Instead of fixing this obvious flaw, they decided to discontinue development.

I really don't get the point of releasing half-assed features. Maps would have been great, if they had bothered to complete it.

(I checked my thesaurus for a more "community central is for children" way of saying half-assed, but the only alternative is "incompetently done", and one of those is a word I'm specifically not allowed to use here, so "half-assed" will have to do.)