User blog:Devilmanozzy/Ten Years Later, Oasis Then, UCP Now

This is sure déjà vu. Time to say a few things.

A little under ten years ago I wrote a little blog called "My Official New Look Wikia (Oasis) Blog", which was about the oncoming change of skin (from Monaco to Oasis). Oh, some of us had fun back then. But here we are in 2020, some grey/white hairs later (my birthday is today, I hit 40) and we have the oncoming doom of "UCP" (Unified Community Platform). The best way to put it: "been there, seen that, done that". The protests have started, everyone is commenting like mad, and likely I am one of many blogs up on the subject. Maybe some of you ironic ones can dig up old "Anti-Wikia Alliance" protest images and revamp them for UCP protests. The few old staff left from back in the day will really enjoy those.

So my feelings on UCP and our doom?! *Yawn* If you were here in 2010 at Wikia, then you know that the platform "somehow" made it. Who knows how we managed to do that. But we learned how to work with the Oasis skin and all the trimmings that came with it. UCP is in many ways a overall positive as now the platform "Legacy" is rather out of date. The world is changing and until recently, Wikia (now re-branded Fandom) was falling way behind.

Snagging this from my old blog (with a few spell check corrections):

So yes, you have choices, which are the following:
 * 1. Leave Wikia Fandom and give up on the whole thing
 * 2. Be a stick in the mud, and just cry the whole time through the change over
 * 3. Accept what Wikia Fandom is doing, stay and play a part in it

Still 3 for me. I have been playing ball here for twelve years, it's going to take more than this to shake me.