Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4522253-20181001230600/@comment-4522253-20181002181408

The community receives a very healthy amount of traffic, and even if the original subject ends we expect it will still be an active community for years to come. Many of our communities experience active editing long past their expected expiry dates, and plenty of reading besides. Further, you do have daily editors, so we would disagree that the wiki is "mostly dead".

"The current infoboxes are fine" is not a strong reason not to change. There are performance reasons, unrelated to mobile display, that are involved. Communities with features like Portable Infoboxes get the best of FANDOM's infrastructure and are the first to be able to try out new products that you may want. While it does benefit FANDOM, it doesn't only benefit FANDOM.

Additionally, simplifying the templates to a FANDOM standard tech makes maintenance easier for changes even after this generation of leaders. Untangling the iBox system and all of the helper templates that have been set up drastically improves the comprehension of code, on this community and for anyone that wants to learn from it to replicate experiences elsewhere.

The real question is: "If FANDOM is doing all the work of migration, what's the downside of switching over?"

SuperSajuuk wrote: Looking at one of the example infoboxes via diffs on one of the articles, the new infoboxes extend down much further than our current ones (for clarity, I checked it on Hate Among the Uchihas: The Last of the Clan!). The current infobox stops just at the end of the "Trivia" section, but the new one leaves a large white space for no reason after Trivia, presumably because of the arbitrarily decided "width" based on supposed "research", which leaves little space for things to fit in a single line. The design can be altered via CSS, of course. They do extend further down as a result of a narrower box, which is indeed the recommended width based on UX research from our network and beyond. Plenty still fits on single lines, and is not cramped when it does not. The whitespace you mentioned is quite minimal for me, but your experience may vary based on any number of factors.