User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-34601615-20201021190946

@ all the haters of UCP:

The whole blog post we are commenting on, says enough on its own: Some old crap was still working, but it was held together by straws and duct tape. You eventually need to tear it down and rebuild it, one way or the other. Fandom is doing that, and they do it successively, methodically, and with a plan.

If the old code is preserved indefinitely, the old employees who still know their way around, will eventually leave because nothing may ever be improved, and at some point nobody can help you anymore. You have to still abandon the wiki anyway, and the company (!) that hosted your free wikis, is gone as well. And then all is lost, instead of just a little formatting that can be easily fixed by voluntary editors.

On most wikis, all that changed were templates, galleries and other "superficial" stuff. Maybe a feature you "desperately needed" was also a long deprecated feature not even 1% of the fandom's userbase ever used. Or maybe your huge new display problem can be solved by fixing one single template and all your 500 pages look just as fine as before. And maybe some wikis were beyond rescue, it probably can't be helped.

So my reasoning is like this: Those customized templates on , that some other editor has abandoned to maintain three years ago, would have broken down eventually anyway.

Yes, it sucks that your wiki suddenly looks less great for a while, but it's salvageable and you need to politely tell the helpful devs what's wrong instead of insulting them. Or put effort in the wiki yourselves to work around minor problems.