Thread:MisterWoodhouse/@comment-39326202-20191217221818

Hello MisterWoodhouse,

On that night of the 17th December 2019, around 22:40 (UTC+1), I got informed about your project called Unified Community Platform.

Through, there is something that attracted my attention (and not only mine it seems):

- The removal of Forums and Forum-based features.

- The Overhaul of user profiles.

Through, I found your precisions of the update unclear, and I fear my question will be ignored due to the fact that the concerned precisions date from the 2 months ago (October 2019), so I want to tell you my concerns more directly.

- First, what are the replacements for the forums? Like you know, there is some Wikis on which the forums system is very important. I think for example of the TABS wiki and the Senran Kagura Wiki, the two main wikis I contribute to and know that they use the forums system. In the case of the TABS wiki, the forums system was used by the administration to deal with management problems (surplus of bureaucrats lately), and same for the Kagura wiki a while ago! Making that the forum system a tool of consultation and coordination (kind of) for the staff of some wikis.

On a more personal way, I am just not a big fan of the Talk page system existing on Gamepedia and for example on the Death Stranding Wiki. I got used to the forum system which was more ergonomic, more practical, fancier than the talk page, as it permitted a better distinction between the subjects. The talk page was even directly incorporated in articles and not put in somewhere less accessible!(Personal opinion.)

So concerning the replacements, I want to know more about them, what I have to be prepared to. I got used to the system, and don't really see myself using something "cruder"  like a talk page.

- Secondly and Lastly, I would just want what the Overhaul of user profiles will be like. I am less attached about it, and I am in fact just asking by curiosity.

I just want to have clarifications and the most details I can get concerning the UCP projects, as it may alters drastically the management and the contributions on some wikis touched more than others by the update.

Humbly,

Edward StoneHammer

A regular contributor. 