User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first specifics on the Unified Community Platform/@comment-4780559-20191017101343/@comment-24006128-20191017123943

In the perfect use cases, Article Comments are well used and very user friendly. Outside of the perfect use cases, the feature is often just spam and users are confused without good examples to follow. We're looking to solve for the perfect use cases and improve the others, so that we can have deep, meaningful conversations about article content that encourages community engagement.

Additionally, the code it is running on is very outdated, a custom build for this particular forked version of MediaWiki. As we move to a 7 years newer version, we need to detangle the bad custom code that won't be compatible.