User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-37028137-20201029164814

Hello I would just like to throw in my thoughts as they are.

So I miss the envelope icon. Now everything is cluttered to the bell and I no longer recieve email notifications about new comments or talks so it's hard to keep up with activity. To add to the horrendousness all of my conversations that used the envelope are now gone. Many of those conversations were ongoing talks and having them taken away practically mid sentence was frankly rude.

The interface overall is how to put this, squashed, the comments on pages look like they've been pressed together and are hard to read. To compound that, while it says all the comments have been put back, most of them have not. I know this because pages that used to have over 1000+ comments now show a number around 300 or so.

Moving onto the Recent Activity tab as it has been renamed. The tab is just a mess, it looks like a lot of lines of green text. When I used to check the tab it was neatly organized you could tell what were changes to the wiki format and what were comments on pages or updates to user profiles at a glance. Comments would be listed by most recent, by page, and would have a picture of the user so you'd know who was talking and it was easy to follow. Now everything is lumped together as one big smudge of green text. I might as well be trying to decipher the Matrix Code.

Moving on to comments specifically editing comments. If you click in to edit a comment but type too much information, the post button literally disappears off the screen and there's no way to post your edited comment. Did no one think to add a scroll bar to the edit feature?

Speaking of formatting I used to be able to use italics and underlining in my posts. That is no longer a feature all I can do is bold things now. I admit I didn't use those two features very often but was nice to have the option. If I wanted to draw attention to a particular part of a post without making it look as though I were yelling I could underline things. And italics was nice for role plays to distinguish between the author and the characters. It really comes down to the lack of choice for these.

Finally I can no longer edit my profile picture. This one really is a minor thing but as someone who likes to change things up not being able to swap out a profile image is a bit annoying.

Now on to the pros

I can now search for images listed by Username which really cuts down on search time...

Well that's it for pros.

Thank you for your time.

The Weary TimeLord.

Edit: It no longer tells you how long you've been part of a specific community, or the date when you joined. Again a minor thing which I only noticed because I was trying to edit my profile pic, yet again. But it was nice to see how long people had been part of one community or another.