User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Social Activity, the 2010 Editor, and Unpausing Migrations/@comment-39930913-20201014133831/@comment-26939652-20201017062637


 * They'd have to hire hundreds more people to be able to run every single wiki on its own configuration.

Erm...right. Maybe they shouldn't have done the merger? Don't make it sound like they're forced to because of outside factors. Somebody asked, "hey, can we do this merger?" and somebody said "sure, can do!" and here we are.

Second, you can opt to port features to the new codebase and just make it available for everyone. Like they did with the 2010 editor. In fact, you can do some more work on the 2010 to make its behaviour on par with classical source editor. In software you don't have to keep everything in order to keep its features. But they underestimated the importance of it and now we get a rushed 2010 editor implementation as a band-aid for the abysmal (and also badly implemented) 2017 editor.