User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-10390252-20200813084202/@comment-24006128-20200813211321

UCP is just a platform name to help differentiate between legacy Fandom, Gamepedia, and the new platform. The underlying core software is the same. It's MediaWiki, which is made by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.

We have to remove Forums because the very custom modifications to MediaWiki which power it make updating MediaWiki (one of the main points of the project) very, very difficult.

Fandom didn't take over Wikia. It's the new name. Same company.

We're making the software update based on user feedback. Claiming we think the users don't matter is quite insulting.