User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-36153576-20200527085816/@comment-24006128-20200527163010

If I wasn't paying attention, I wouldn't be talking to you.

We're going through it because it's the right move for the long-term health of the platform. Moving wikis which have the tools they need to thrive is smart because it allows us to improve the platform even more with data generated from those wikis being on the new code. Testing is great, but the most accurate data comes from normal usage.

Since we launched for new wikis on March 11th, normal usage has given us insight into bugs, improvement opportunities, and shortfalls that extensive testing couldn't. We expect that migrations will continue to provide us with opportunities to improve.

Without those opportunities, we would be in a much worse position. Having everything launch all at once would be overload. Incremental migration in parallel with incremental release (currently at 2 releases per wiki) is the most responsible way to transition in this incredibly complex project.

We have hundreds of years of wiki experience being leveraged on the UCP project team, but we don't know everything, which is why we're paying attention to the critics, the bug reporters, the folks who seek to break the platform in new ways (why do you think we named the staff sandbox after Wreck It Ralph?), and everyone else who gives us actionable feedback.