Thread:Lytora/@comment-27831991-20201014204514/@comment-26939652-20201014210603

These are what we call "noble goals". Long term strategy plans, the first phase of brainstorming long before things get down to concrete implementations.

A lot of things fit inside these broad definitions and so you can pretty much always say you succeeded. If they're only in that stage now, then phase 2 is still far away.

The thing is - they forced tons of wikis to do repairs on the design work they already had done and come up with alternatives for lost features. So another "unified design" overhaul is not going to go down well, because these wikis are not about being on par with the latest and greatest design trends, they are about content and anything that forces people to deal with things other than the content they love and care about - in their spare time - is unwelcome.

My faith in the UX "experts" at Fandom is also zero. They are either ignored within the organization or they have let things through that no self-respecting UX expert would.

In the end, the people that want better design / more modern features are few and the ones who want them knowing they'd first have to go through another CSS / Layout fix for a few days are close to zero.

All the above is still only trying to complete their business merger and the aftermath of bad decisions. But what I really would like is to be able to defined keywords, phrases that would automatically quarantine a comment for approval. Or the ability to disallow anonymous comments, but allow anonymous editing. And those aren't going to be on anyone's agenda for a while till this phase is done.