User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-5124247-20201123185614

So, I don't expect this to actually be seen or even read by anyone at Fandom (bc they've made it abundanly clear that they care more about being submissive to Marvel than they do about their actual user base), but on the offchance that I'm wrong, I would like to ask; what exactly was the point of this update (aside from pleasing Marvel as I said).

I'm part of a wiki that uses heavy custom coding, and as of this "update" all of that has pretty much been flipped upside down in an act that isn't too far from vandalism. So many templates have to be fixed or completely reworked, and that's just of this morning. I'm very sure we'll find more problems as we go along, and a lot of people will be forced to take time out of their day to fix a problem that was forced onto them.

I do not know anyone who wanted any part of this UCP, beyond a select few (such as Fandom staff). I won't say that the old system was perfect, but it worked better and was far more liked. If you were so desperate to partner up with Marvel, then you should have done it properly, instead of throwing a bugged, glitching, program that the vast majority of users have no need or want of.

I've been on Fandom for several years now, and I've seen the staff ask time and time again what they're doing wrong. Why do some users or entire groups leave? Why do some sites stop getting activity? What can be done to fix it?

And I'm sure that you believed UCP was the solution to all of that, but it wasn't. It simply cannot be when you have people begging for to have the old system returned to them.