User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Announcing Fandom's (Virtual) Community Connect 2021/@comment-1807002-20210126234651/@comment-20644-20210127005228

Totally valid on not wanting to watch the recordings. It’s a long time! That’s why for those who do attend, we’re limiting the amount of hours we spend per day on meaty sessions. We’re also going to intersperse them with virtual social activities, that way the day isn’t just people sitting and watching us talk for several hours.

For new designs and editor tools - we’re not calling it Phase 2 anymore (that became too broad of a title and it seemed like it implied there would be more phases) but it’s all in the realm of continuing to build, improve, and grow the platform. We’ll have the design element with the Unified Experience, and we’ll have a team focused on building editor tools for the new platform as well. Plus other product development teams focused on other areas of the platform, which we'll talk about more at a later date.

For brand refresh - it’s definitely our goal to grow the public’s awareness of the Fandom brand. What we’ll unveil starting at Connect is the framework and storytelling that’s needed in order to do that.

For community experience - this is some of the programs and initiatives that we’ll be working on with the community. For example, the Town Hall format I mentioned is one of those programs. It’s all to build better connections with and between editors, and have some fun along the way.