Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-38517772-20201013160631/@comment-168424-20201013171527

Paramount1106 wrote: Kortooney, one thing I’ve noticed across multiple blogs is that, each of the comments seems to indicate that users aren’t even paying attention to the entire blog, and therefore they are providing their opinions while not looking at the bigger picture of the platform change from 1.19 to 1.33

Some of the comments come from users who are particularly unsatisfied with not having features that they liked having, while not realizing that on a technical level, Fandom couldn’t even manage and support those features since they relied heavily on customized code that couldn’t logically be fixed or maintained properly under MediaWiki 1.33. However, I’m sure that they’ll realize that they shouldn’t have been so stubborn about the change(s) and not to get overly frustrated about it. This is somewhat misleading... the reason customized code couldn't easily be micrated or ported to MediaWiki 1.33 is because of the longstanding neglect of updating the base MediaWiki engine which  made the task even harder and near impossible, since FANDOM didn't maintain the expertise to do the job anyway.

You need to understand that editors have been accustomed to a certain feature set for near a decade and FANDOM demonstrated they deprioritized the comfort of existing users for their own priorities which make contributing much more difficult for those "volunteers" who are the basis for FANDOM's entire business.