User blog comment:Yeetman77/Why UCP Sucks/@comment-4368470-20201104002156

Hey Yeetman77! Sorry to hear you guys are having growing pains during the transition to UCP. Know that you're not alone -- many of our own wikis are having difficulties as we adjust as well.

The Fandom staff have written a great blog post explaining why it's imperative to transition all our wikis to UCP. As explained in the blog post, our old wikis are stuck on an old, buggy, version of software (called "MediaWiki") that is no longer supported any more. It's barely held together, and definitely can't have anything new added to it or fixed without a ton of work and putting us more behind!

That's why it's important to upgrade everything to current, up-to-date software (which is UCP). All modern websites and products have to do it. If any individual wiki was left on old, buggy, software, everything on that wiki would eventually break down and no one would be there to fix it.

It would be awesome if this process could be easy and bug-free right off the bat. Unfortunately, in a case where we're literally migrating thousands of wikis with hundreds of thousands of pages each with their own custom content, it's pretty impossible for there to not be issues along the way. There are growing pains any time change happens in life. Fandom staff are trying their best to make this process as painless as possible and listen to user feedback, so the best thing we can do to support them during this time is give them specific, actionable, feedback and report any specific bugs that we find :)