Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-26339491-20191203204132/@comment-11515627-20200315215536

(Still getting notifications from this, ugh.) No matter how you slice this, there are so many use cases for normal file pages. If the cost-benefit calculation is in favor of doing it this way, what's particularly annoying is that there's technologically a way better way to accomplish it that doesn't sacrifice surfacing the file pages to normal users. It's as simple as a robots meta tag instructing crawlers not to index the pages. Which is the more industry standard way to accomplish this anyway.

I continue to be confused and frustrated with this decision all these days later after it was first announced. There's a better way to do it, and it's yet another example of Fandom shafting the wiki experience in favor of looking more like a social media site (not showing the average user "how the sausage is made" despite that quite literally being the point of a wiki).

And before anyone responds saying I'm not "being helpful", this comment is intended to be constructive. Fandom has reversed course on a few things after sufficient backlash; hopefully this can be one of those instances, because this really really sucks.