User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first specifics on the Unified Community Platform/@comment-35646433-20191019162645

Hey -- I know you probably get hundreds of these comments, complaining about new features you're adding, and I know how frustrating it must be to moderate and sort through all of them. But I'd just like you to know that there is actually a reason why you keep getting these, and it's not because we agree with what you're adding to this platform. I don't mean to say that you don't know what you're doing, because I'm sure you do. But users' opinions should always have some sort of say in these kinds of updates, as we happen to be the people who use these programs the most to connect with others over the same interests. For anyone who may be reading this, do you want comments to be removed from wikis? Do you want message walls, a staple form of communication between community members, removed without anyone consulting your opinion first? Do you want the activity of all these sites to be at risk because of a new feature, without the admins being able to weigh in at all?

Vote here: Yes, I want them removed. No, I use them frequently and do not want them removed. About half and half? Exactly. You can't please everyone, and I think much of your user base would agree with me when I say that it's fine to make updates every once in a while, but the admins and bureaucrats of a wiki really should have at least an option to not blindly march into an unexplained update and risk the activity of their wiki dropping lower than it was before. I don't see any problem with how the wikis are now, personally. But if you're going to update your platform, could you at least tell us exactly what you're doing and give us a chance to have a feature that's more similar to the former one?