Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment--20150810171627/@comment-1757994-20150810201717

DaNASCAT wrote:

...

The specific feedback is that it is unnecessary to transclude the login form on every page. Great news! We agree with that. For a long time, Wikia has been working on our backend for a new log-in and user registration system called Helios. It's built outside of the traditional MediaWiki architecture, which allows us to avoid a lot of the traps MediaWiki architecture has put us in.

...

Special:UserLogin has none of the faults you attribute to it.