User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-28455010-20201030230054

Alright, let's look at a few of the many, many things that UCP ruined:


 * Positioning coding: The wikis I generally use implement a good amount of wikitext coding, and this update disrupted every page on our wiki that used absolute positioning.


 * Removed good features: Among these features are polls, SoundCloud widgets, Popular Blogs, grid layout categories and classic editor.


 * Issues with visual editor were never resolved: When used for a page with a good amount of wikitext, visual editor tends to cause spacing issues, interfere with the code and is overall completely unusable for wikitext-heavy pages.


 * Recent Wiki Activity: Let's all be honest here, we all know exactly what I'm talking about here. You'll see the entire recent wiki activity board filled with one page, or with troll pages protesting the UCP update--and the best part is that even deleted pages stay, which means the troll pages get far more attention than they would otherwise.


 * Staff Tools: I've spoken with some mods, and from what I understand their rights were crippled. Apparently a content moderator can't even delete pages without using the bot.


 * New Profiles: Let's all be honest with ourselves right now--they look bad. I think we can all agree on that. Any coding on them has likely been decimated by UCP at this point, and any options for personalization have been removed.

Conclusion: Personally, I'm of the opinion that the UCP migration will have FANDOM's wikis resigned to the same fate as post-Eclipse DeviantArt. There's no point in waiting for them to 'fix' this update, because they don't care what us users think. If they did, maybe they'd have actually taken into account what the community wants. I can't have good faith in them anymore, not in the wake of this absolute disaster. Move on to greener pastures--there are better sites than this. I've seen quite a few people ready to quit, and if I'm honest I think I'll likely be leaving FANDOM soon. Only reason I was sticking around was for coding, and the people I knew on AJCW.