Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-24006128-20200311154142/@comment-44721605-20200316140316

Aquamarinesandopals wrote: Special:WikiActivity is a must, I agree it would work well in tandem with Special:RecentChanges.

Users on our Wiki who I gave the link to are finding the Recent Changes tab to be hard to navigate due to how small and close together all the entries are. It looks very 'technical' and has been offputting for more casual users who just want to come in, socialise, and chat to their friends. I'm an admin and I'm finding looking at it needlessly difficult. Maybe it's my ADHD, but it is so much information at once and I can't really focus on any of it. I appreciate it has its uses! I would just hope Wiki Activity is ported over or there are efforts to make Recent Changes more accessible.

I think I read here that comments will be making a comeback, and I hope they do. The name change from Wiki to Fandom really screwed our site over (turns out everafterhighfandom.fandom gets dwarfed by everafterhigh.fandom in search engines, who knew) and getting rid of the comments and Wiki Activity (the hub for activity on many Wikis) would be the nail in the coffin for us.

This all sounded negative of me, but honestly aside from those two things, I'm pretty damn happy with the changes. Comments will not have comeback, as it was mentioned in blog. Special:RecentChanges can be set-up to show content, that's in WikiActivity. This is becouse RC got really big overhaul in 7 years. There are filter savers, and other good stuff. If you were on Wikipedia's (or on other Wikimedia project) RC, you know that.