User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-5456782-20201031015555

i've been using for like nine years now. every time a new change like this is implemented, the community generally recoils horribly and hates it. some of those functions have been great and warranted: closing of chats, the new forums/message walls, etc.. these changes do not feel that necessary. i get what wikia was trying to do - merge gamepedia and wikia into one format - but did it really need this new "modern" format? did RTE need to die? did all of our templates need to be built from the ground up for like the third time in the past five years?

this new system isn't approachable to new users like you think it is. for pete's sake, the old format was so easily accessible that nine-year-olds could use it: and that's not a joke, i legitimately know people who have been editing wikia since that young, and they didn't have any problems with the old system. there really isn't a reason for these new changes to happen. you can't keep alienating contributors like this: the community coders, community template builders, etc. are the back-bone of wikia content, and they keep getting stepped on. once a functioning alternative is found, lots of communities will leave and head there. please, don't fix something that doesn't need fixed.