User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-24053170-20201007195735

So I noticed thats it now much more difficult to create pages in the new platform, since it wants to search the wikia first before it will let you.

Not sure why this feature was included, as its not a good idea.

I can understand how it might be useful to prevent vandalism on some fandom sites, but on others it actually hurts the chances to add to or expand on the wikia.

Is there any chance of making it free access to create pages again? Since for sites like the Superpower wikia, Vs Battle wiki, or Verse and Dimensions wikias, users need free access to create pages since thats the entire purpose behind those sites. Making it harder to create pages shouldn't have been a feature in the first place, especially when some wikias depend on it in order to stay active.

For smaller and lesser known wikias its a good idea. But for ones whose entire purpose is cataloging things it needs to be disabled.

A problem arises for sites like Marvel and DC wikias, since while there are a lot of similar sounding pages...their all actually different variations. But now with page creation restricted to having to search the wikia to see if something similar exists first, its cutting down on the ability to improve existing wikias.

I preferred it when I could just click the Add Page button on the top screen and didn't have to worry about having to check the wikia first before the page was able to be made.