User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-44305712-20201029192702/@comment-5078732-20201110185351

don't worry, I'm sure the majority will like it once you patch all the (numerous, in my opinion) bugs... and even if my cautiously optimistic guess is wrong, I'm sure you'll be watching your analytics closely, right?

I think part of the problem with these comments is that they don't seem to understand how to disagree. Because of the participation effect you mentioned, people often speak more loudly when they have a problem with a situation, but how can they expect anyone to hear them if all they say is "change is bad. I hate it" or something to that effect?

In any case, I get what is probably going on behind the scenes here: you want to simplify things by bringing the sites together and moving on with a redesign that will HOPEFULLY do more good than harm... even if a lot of people seem to think it does the opposite. Changes always break someone's workflow, as the XKCD comic I shared previously jokes about, so try not to let it bother you too much. I'm not nuts about the changes either (particularly the fact the editor seems to be a lot more horizontally squished and a few probably-a-bug repercussions of that), but as long as everything can be fixed with enough TLC, and your developers are willing to put in that TLC, I think I can safely remain cautiously optimistic...

...but please for the love of all things crowdsourced prioritize the bug I just described in my comment on one of your more recent posts.