User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-35455167-20200527053251

I am still somewhat wary of UCP, but I have reason to be cautiously excited as well.

Why I am wary:  Discussions. These have never worked for me. As in, I am unable to participate in any meaningful way. I cannot create new threads, post to old threads, vote in polls, view poll results, or even view older replies when the thread gets too long. The only issue I have had with Forums is with creating new threads, but I have found a workaround. The fact that message walls, forums, and article comments are going to be replaced with Discussions technology makes me anxious. If there were a fallback option for when the modern code fails to run properly, similar to how gmail has the "basic HTML" view, that would allay my gravest concerns.

One reason why I am cautiously excited:  Some of the other compatibility issues I had when w:c:wreckit-woodhouse debuted have been resolved well enough to go from non-functional to clunky-but-functional. A couple of months ago I could not load the UCP visual editor. A couple of hours ago I made an edit on the wreckit-woodhouse wiki using the UCP visual editor. But it still took an arselong time for the progress bar to finish, even when choosing to use the source editor, making it feel a bit bloatware. I think a "standard" mode, with all the bells and whistles, and a "basic" mode, where you can still do everything from source if you're savvy enough, would be beneficial to many users – not just those who have compatibility issues with the modern code.