User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-26893431-20201013093433

I've been editing for over five years now on The Elder Scrolls Wiki, and I honestly hate the new system.
 * 1) It's a mess to navigate, nothing looks or feels the way it used to.
 * 2) The change from "Recent Activity" to "Recent Changes" is completely unnecessary.
 * 3) The timetable in "Recent Changes" is inconvenient compared to how it used to, since now you're forced to pick out both the quantity of edits performed, and the timeframe in which they were edited. It's unnecessary.
 * 4) The way how new edits are now shown is a mess.
 * 5) Templates no longer pop-up automatically when you're typing them out, meaning that if you forget how to spell a template, you're out of luck.
 * 6) This also applies to links to other pages, so if you forget how to write the title of another page, tough luck, you'll have to open up another tab just to search it.
 * 7) Templates in general mess up spacing while editing.
 * 8) The new placement of "view changes" in the editing window is inconvenient and unnecessary.
 * 9) Pages take far longer to load when you wish to edit them than they did before.
 * 10) Removal of join date and bio from userpages was unnecessary.
 * 11) Trying to open an image via a page is impossible.

There are a couple of positive things, but they weigh nowhere near enough to outweigh the negatives:
 * 1) Template coloring makes it easier to recognize when a template is used, as does the coloring for bold, italics, references, etc.
 * 2) The new coloring in the edit history for pages better shows what has been added/removed.
 * 3) Having image edits and text edits be seperated is a good thing.

In general I greatly prefer the older system. Unsure if we're just stuck with the new or if there'll be a chance to revert to the old system, or remove some of the new features, but imo, the new look discourages editing.