User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-39885705-20200831015244/@comment-39885705-20200831023013

The new editor is impossible to use with a wide screen (a normal laptop). When I try to edit, first the editor loads __extremely__ slowly. I mean it takes more than a minute! Then there are enormously thick bars on the top and bottom taking up 2/3 of the vertical space of my screen (I measured it). I can only see and edit a handful of article lines at a time, which makes editing a wiki page almost impossible. I can't see any hint of the context of this tiny sliver within the rest of the page. This is just not useable on a laptop.

Here is my screenshot: https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/File:New_editor.jpg

You can see that the tiny, narrow sliver of space between the red lines is all I have to work with. Above and below the red lines, huge bars take up 2/3 of my screen. I cannot scroll past these bars and there is no way to increase the editor window. The bar that says FANDOM and START A WIKI also takes up a very large chunk of vertical space which a widescreen cannot spare. Why does that even need to be there when I'm editing? If I clicked on any part of it (such as by mistake) it would cancel my edit.

Why is the new platform incompatible with laptops? This is clearly not the same platform as Wikipedia. Wikipedia is actually entirely useable on a laptop screen because it does not have enormous extra bars gratuitiously added to the top and bottom of the screen. You can easily scroll past the header and footer bars on the Wikipedia editor. This is the Wikipedia editor: https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/File:Wikipedia_editor.jpg

While it _might_ be convenient to pin the upper bar with the edit options on it, the new UCP editor's upper bar takes up twice as much vertical space as the corresponding bar on Wikipedia. And there's NO reason to make it impossible to scroll past the bottom bars.

The new editor also has NO Preview option. Why did you take away the Preview option? Again, this is a feature present on both Wikipedia and the old Fandom. I cannot imagine why you decided to eliminate the option to preview edits! Previewing is sometimes the only way to avoid creating huge code errors that sometimes can't be fixed even with a revert - I have seen it happen more than once.