Board Thread:New Features/@comment-43596541-20200821135532/@comment-1038387-20200821161439

BluesDriver wrote: I also would like to note that the Special:WikiActivityalleviates the need to follow individual pages by providing a central list of ALL Page Edits /  Comments ... So for us, the "disappearance" of all Comments from Recent Changes after Migration is a BUG, even if for FANDOM Staff and WikiMedia people it is more of a technical feature ... (^) ...

Comments 2.0 does not use MediaWiki, and so is not part of Recent Changes. It's not a bug, it's intended design. It is a shortcoming, though and AFAIK, there's no official replacement for it. You could see if DiscussionsRC works. I hate that you would need to.

Also, WA did not show all edits. Image namespace and IIRC also category and Mediawiki namespace were not mentioned. It no more negates the use for watched pages than RC would.

As for your other points, Fandom did not think through all use cases and those were some of them they didn't consider. It's a nice, clean feed alright. But what substitute they'll have for those is unknown. If you want to make a case for WA, send in feedback, but it looks like a done deal now.