User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-134861-20200616123326/@comment-134861-20200617134745

[" and ” are not the same symbol. The former is used for markup.]

They are recognized as the same symbol by all browsers and every text editor I've ever dealt with, for the purposes of searching. I can CTRL+F ["] and it will find all instances of [”]. The new CTRL+F function that hijacks the browser's own CTRL+F functionality is an outlier with virtually all other text editors in this regard, which I don't really see as defensible.

[If it works with &useuserjs&useusercss, it's not the system that's at fault. I oubt they're going to review everyone's personal css, or fix it upon request - try the Dev wiki's discord.]

The cause of the breaking is almost certainly that they changed the names of these features in the code. I'm asking them to clarify what the new names are, so I can adjust my css.

[Any custom CSS styling solutions will probably be thought up by users over time, it won't be here this early.]

With all due respect, FANDOM keeps stepping in the shit on this issue. Every time huge sweeping changes like this have happened, there has been a large, vocal contingent that has expressed the desire to at least have the option to keep the old visuals on a personal basis. This has happened enough times, and on large enough scale, that it's even a good-sized section of the wikipedia article on this company. They really have no excuse to not have considered community desire before hand, and it's embarrassing for, each time, the company to say "whoops nothing we can do" and then fob off the work of trying to salvage good will on the editors. Finding a way to simulate the layout and aesthetics as optional preferences should have been a given after the first debacle in 2008, there's no excuse to still be refusing to do the work twelve years later.

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[The Article comments are using Feeds technology like Discussions. There's not going to be an option to change it to (resembling) the retired code.]

Yes, I get that. I'm disappointed, though, because from the reader PoV it ends up looking like something from geocities. The old format clearly delineated OPs and replies with talk-bubbles (similar to what's used in this very thread and the talkbubble template concept that is popular across many wikis, wikifarms, and is an aesthetic popular across social media in general), while the new one they kind of run together and multiple replies in a row tend to run together.

FANDOM could rescue so much good will if they simply made sure to find ways to simulate the old features and made them available in preferences. That's the main thing people have been asking for since 2008.