User blog comment:ComboLuigi2000/The mistake of UCP (And how it can be improved)/@comment-36107211-20200823030253/@comment-26939652-20200827064756

Yes but the UCP platform is automatically better, as it uses a much more updated version of MediaWiki.

Lol, that's some horse crap. If all software updates are automatically better, let me name 3 examples that are easy to understand: Windows ME, Windows Vista, Windows 8.

Wikipedia has updated their MediaWiki software because that's called "Eating your own dogfood". They may be different organizations now, but they're still the same root. The fact that the flagship site of the MediaWiki software only has an odd 200 wikis (if that) is one of the core problems that caused the fork to begin with, as they aren't confronted with the degrading performance of scale that Wikia was seeing.

Perhaps that problem has become less, but that could be attributed just as much to hardware and resource improvements as it is to MediaWiki. And seeing how there's a lot of complaints about the performance of UCP, I don't think that problem has entirely been tackled.

So please jump off the "updated software is automatically better" bandwagon. Reality doesn't work that way.