User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first specifics on the Unified Community Platform/@comment-198.189.65.254-20191016151857

Looking away from potentially trivial things like the Forums feature, there may be some more obvious solutions to merging user tables than Fandom might be willing to accept. At the core, Fandom still runs on MediaWiki, which means we have the entire extension library at our fingertips. Heck, MediaWiki extensions can even be tweaked to best serve Fandom if necessary.

Has any thought been put into using something like CentralAuth instead of a sort of "force merge" of user accounts? An opt-in unified login system might serve as a smoother transition than anything else. After all, the uniqueness of projects hosted on Fandom and Gamepedia might set some existing community members apart. Why not allow them to transition on their own terms?