Board Thread:New Features/@comment-25404524-20171130232015/@comment-28069733-20171219233715

The fact that such things even happen makes me question what in the world the wikia management are thinking. Let's face facts, "Discussions replacing Forums" is the main cause of the current uproars happening and those who are trying to sugarcoat it by praising how good it is aren't even fully aware as to what the consequences are:
 * Forums have been there for a long while and wikians of their own communities have built their infrastructures around the use of Forums for their communities to flourish. This forced replacement will effectively destroy everyone's work and essentially creates the situation where you tell everyone to "suck it up". This wouldn't be a problem if it were not the fact that the smaller wikia communities aren't even given the choice of retaining the forums to begin with. Not leaving any backward compatibility behind for people to slowly migrate over to a new environment with their work intact pisses me off to no end as an IT specialist.
 * Discussions do not support "WikiText" among others. While others are trying to sugarcoat this by saying that they are working hard to implement updates, do you realize how people would feel if they are forced into a house where both the roof and the furnitures are missing? This is wishful thinking and it is basically another way to tell people to "suck it up" and hope life improves in the future.

With the issues pointed out, let's dive into the core issues:
 * The new system is inferior to the older system. No doubt that in order to promote mobile-friendliness, they have created this new system to replace the older system as I suspect that the older system lacks something which effectively prevents them from pursuing their goals. However, in order to successfully replace an older system, the new system has to be equal or greater than the older system. And most important, it needs backward compatibility in order to deprecate the legacy software in the future.
 * In order to pursue the image of mobile-friendliness, you accepted the fact that it is acceptable to sacrifice the computer users in order to pursue your goals. Mobile/tablet users definitely have become popular, but have you already forgotten that the computer users also form a majority?

Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike changes. But the way it is presented to me now makes me want to burn it to the ground for giving me such a sloppy work on top of not providing all the proper facts as to why it should be better than Forums. This complaint will most likely fall on deaf ears, since I've a good grasp now as to how the wikia's staff operates, but realize that actions like this would only just end up damaging your own revenue. There is always a good reason for when complaints like these appear. Just don't say I didn't warn you.