User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Pausing UCP migrations to resolve some critical blockers/@comment-454133-20200831161802/@comment-26939652-20200831172753


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And this is where you made a big error in judgement when evaluating whether you'd be ready to do phase 1 of the migration. You were still assuming that things were being used for what you made them for.

It doesn't work that way. From the CD bay being used as a coffeecup holder to wikitext templates in comments to facilitate Role Play, humans will use things as they see fit.

The second underestimation is probably bug severity and closely related to this. Because people use things in a way you haven't foreseen, you'll judge the severity a few nudges lower than your users.

Last but not least, this was probably better done as an opt-in + freeze functionality/upgrades on legacy, but that may not be viable from a business standpoint. Still, people react better to migrating themselves then forced migrations with functionality changes, visual changes and inevitable bugs.