User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-896291-20160908214213

Yeah, this need to turn a desktop built website into a mobile phone landscape is troubling to say the least. Accessibility, I can understand, but transforming an entire website without an option to maintain what works for desktops and just creating something for mobile platforms is irksome.

I liked the forum layout (esp. over the older "indexed" version of it, which just never worked for me). They were useful, especially when you could tag them with the subject they were covering and it would appear below specific article only vs a jumble of "top discussions". If I thought that section needed anything, it was the power to promote forum admins like chat admins and the ability to freeze threads so they couldn't be resurrected if the discussions were resolved or done with.

From what I've seen thus far, the filter system (separating discussions with checklists) is unwieldy, the loading times on the central pages (transitioning to the subpages or just loading the pages) are as inconsistent as the loading times on the image and video viewers that replaced the far more stable versions, and the cascading format (where older posts are collapsed and the like) is particularly unhelpful.

Nothing about this look is clean. If anything it's a chaotic mess lying against eye-straining white and feels entirely divorced from the Wikia its supposed to be serving, which in my opinion is neither smart or functional.