User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-172.56.23.102-20201214212403/@comment-43866433-20201216173537

Yep, one person’s opinion. Just attempting to quantify my change in behavior as opposed another person saying things suck now, people don’t contribute as much, and let’s leave. Maybe this more helpful and won’t be dismissed as easily. Pretty confident the reasons I listed have led to more reticence in using site, but you’re right, who knows for sure.

The Popularity metrics I’m talking about the wiki page ranking/view count stats. They were available for viewing popularity in “last week” and “last 4 weeks”, showing hundreds of pages. Useful for wiki browsing. Many wiki’s have thousands of pages and, believe or not, it can be hard to find stuff if you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for;> Pages can sink into oblivion after they fall off the top 8 trending. Also, as a content contributor / page creator seeing view counts for ‘your’ stuff was another motivating factor (and yes, sometimes a demotivating factor).