Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-44204058-20200820001126/@comment-1038387-20200822232702

Elder Pleasure wrote: Tupka217 wrote: There's no nice way of saying this, but you don't have a clue what you're talking about. Frankly, neither would you. UCP has already been condemned by several wikis that I search on for being "too basic" and "unappealing to mobile users." In fact, it has even become a joke in itself; so much that a certain number of bureaucrats are letting others take over their wikis. Sorry, but it looks like that's the best they believe I can tell the truth about.

I reckon I have at least half a clue. I'm willing to go down to 35% of a clue. But you... not so much.

The current MediaWiki is 1.34. UCP is 1.33. Legacy is forked, custom 1.19. It's an 8 year old version with about 1 million custom lines of code. At the time, they went for something that suited their needs, but in hindsight, breaking from vanilla was a big mistake. It prevented them from just updating. "Just updating" would break a good portion of those lines of code. So when you say that they should just do that... yeah no. You don't know what you're talking about.