User blog:Jackboog21/Community Connect Blog 3 (UCP)

Today at Community Connect they showed off UCP.

UCP doesn't look drastic and will begin rollout within the next few months. It will use the latest version of MediaWiki 1.33, and will feature a new Visual Editor. Mobile editing is also a major thing UCP has.

The new user pages look alright, not too much of a divergence from the current system. Albeit it doesn't look as clunky.

Some minor updates to Discussions was also showed off. It'll be losing "Filters" in place of a clearer "Category" system, but it's only made more prominent. It's not completely redone. Perhaps a larger (or smaller) change is that each post will appear smaller, thus allowing more posts to be shown at once.

While I asked about what'll be replacing Comments and Message Walls, the answer I got was basically "stay tuned".

They are also planning on allowing much more customization than they currently do. When asked if we could change a wiki's theme they said something along the lines of (don't remember exactly) "I don't know if I would call them themes."

More updates to come.