User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-34969542-20200819222341

This broke a lot of things on our site. The visual editor refuses to load. User tags are now gone. Even though recent activity doesnt exist anymore its widget is still present on user profiles except you cannot see the usernames of the people who edited. You have to click on images on the images special page to see who uploaded them. Gallery images shrunk by huge amounts for some reason. Switching between presentation types on category pages is very sluggish and takes at least 15-20 seconds to load. Overall loading of pages and the source editor is also very sluggish and slow to load.

Please fix some of these issues. We knew about the transition in advance but these problems make a lot of our site needlessly difficult and annoying to use/navigate. Inexcusable for how long this has been tested and developed.

I'm not even going to get into how distraught we are by the loss of the recent activity page. That was far cleaner, more intuitive, and easier to use than recent changes. It really hurts my ability to feel personally invested in our wiki and really hurts my desire for casual editing and browsing. I think we're going to see a noticable decline in views and edits because of this. It's extremely careless of FANDOM to go through with this without proper testing and without taking the needs/desires of its userbase into account.

I wanted to keep an open mind on the whole UCP thing but as it is right now, it's a gigantic mess and feels more like something forced from carelessness and rashness rather than passion for making the platform better.