Board Thread:New Features/@comment-168424-20181227041434/@comment-3218221-20190129004114

Damn, I hit post and FANDOM ate my comment. I'm not writing that all out again, so let me say this:

CF and CB are the most worrying things I've seen FANDOM cook up in a while. I understand that both are in early alpha stages and that FANDOM clams they'll also customization in the future (I mean, they're claiming CF will be 'dynamic' among other things) but the states they're in now are highly foreboding.

CF seems absolutely designed for mobile users at the expense of desktop users (aka the ones who are actually making meaningful/useful edits/contributions), what with the large, blocky modules. The huge front-and-center Discussions module (which I abhor) just reeks of FANDOM desperately trying to promote Discussions, and that I don't see the Help page mention wikitext forums (which many wikis still use over Discussions) at all...I don't like it. To me, that portends ill; I worry that this is a sign FANDOM may soon try to phase out wikitext forums completely.

(Seriously, there is no way one could find the landing page aesthetically more pleasing than any other option unless one is exclusively a mobile user, as from what I understand, the mobile experience is a wretched one).

A 'customizable' landing page...forgive me if I have my doubts, but given how the test landing pages curently look, I suspect the landing pages will undoubtedly play into the whole "oh, we want users to have a uniform experience so customization is actually going to be restricted by our parameters" idea we've seen with the 'modernized' top nav/headers.

(e.g. like how people can't even change the font of the top nav, which I find ridiculous with respect to the "oh users will be confused if things are too unique" thing. How would something as simple as a font change upend a user's whole experience/worldview?)

And don't even get me started on the editor CB is testing... my hope had been that FANDOM had let its previous schemes for a new editor die a quiet death (since from what I remembered people hated their new editor ideas) but apparently that was not to be...

While I wasn't the biggest fan of the .wikia to .fandom move, at least that had no affect on the wiki articles' content/wiki designs. CF and CB have the potential to cause huge uproars/dissent among users, and where some may be more optimistic, I'm...wary and concerned.