User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first specifics on the Unified Community Platform/@comment-35289717-20191016205324/@comment-24006128-20191016210100

No. We're replacing this handful of custom features that have contributed to the tangled mess of outdated code on the current platform. Detangling from these features allow us to move to the new modern MediaWiki based Unified Community Platform, which adds years of improvements across the board from the Wikimedia Foundation, access to new extensions, and the ability to build great new features without having to deal with the "spaghetti code"