Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-281395-20151126112638/@comment-281395-20151126121844

Some leniency must be made to communities who created complex scripts with core functionality. There was no prior communication. It was just commented out. It takes time to change scripts to make them compatible and we weren't even informed, ever, about the scripts needing to use their APIs. The community, which is quite large, is now asking why everything is broken.

Rappy created a thread on our MediaWiki:Common.js talk page where we were discussing it. His reply was completely inconsiderate. While he did explain why the scripts were commented out, he wasn't understanding of the immediate damage his actions had on the community. In a reply he told us that instead of having scripts to warn about possible vandalism we should contact Wikia/VSTF without looking to find that we already did, numerous times, and they were fruitless attempts that just slowed down the vandalism. In his reply, he couldn't provide any kind of leniency to at least restore the functionality while we can resolve the compatibility issues.

One of Wikia's main priorities is security, fine. But it took them a very long time to have this JavaScript review process and they provide no support for communities who developed scripts beforehand. Their documentation does not provide the help that we need and Rappy just told us that it was not difficult to do. I spent 2 hours trying to work it out and could not find a way to do what we want, and what Rappy suggested to us. And as said, when prompted for more specific information, Rappy's support ended.