User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-40233642-20210105155626/@comment-24258073-20210105204137

Actually a lot of the people that don't comment here do like it. And if they didn't force it on all wikis, then they wouldn't be able to fully replace the outdated platform. There are many improvements made to the new platform:


 * The ability to move category pages (though I prefer to restrict this and the ability to move files to Administrators and Content Moderators)
 * The ability to be notified of reported content on wikis where you are an Administrator or Discussion Moderator.
 * The ability to merge page histories on wikis where you are an Administrator (this feature is not available by default on the legacy platform)
 * The ability to change the content models of pages on wikis where you are an Administrator or Content Moderator.
 * The ability to create and deactivate tags on wikis where you are an Administrator.
 * The ability to delete tags on wikis where you are an Administrator.

Though I hope they bring back the following:


 * The automated welcome messages.
 * The ability to lock threads on your message wall (especially considering that all locked threads on your message wall are unlocked from the migration)
 * The TitleBlacklist extension.
 * The Disambiguator extension which serves as a successor to the Special:Disambiguations page.
 * The Special:Editcount page.
 * The ability for Administrators to view all deleted history entries that are not suppressed (such as deleted history entries for non-whitelisted MediaWiki pages)
 * The ability for Administrators to edit archived user talk pages on wikis that have message walls enabled.
 * The ability to disable comments for your own blogs in the blogs namespace.

I also hope they fix the following:


 * The issue with exporting and importing pages (exporting pages usually results in all the revisions being attributed to the person exporting the pages, rather than the people that made the revisions)
 * The issue where you can't view deleted threads on your own message wall unless you are an Administrator or Discussion Moderator (I've checked and regular users can restore threads to their own message wall, but they can only do this if the links to the deleted comments are still there in Special:SocialActivity, or they still have the URLs to the deleted threads)