Thread:Hatebunny/@comment-974574-20170505182512/@comment-3361105-20170505184144

Infoboxes are primarily where our issues are.

A few years ago, Wikia came to us and begged us to convert our character page templates to Lua. Instead of listening to our warnings that we don't use the same templates as the Marvel database, they just ported the Marvel version to our wiki, and broke a bunch of things. We did our best to fix them, but after the initial rollout, they provided no further support, and stuff just stayed broken.

A few years later, they came up with portable infoboxes, which admittedly made the site look better on mobile. However, the conversion broke several basic and important functions of the infoboxes, and when - as before - the guy who was converting our just ghosted us without any further help or instruction, an even longer list of broken things has been waiting to be resolved.

And then it occurred to us that we could resolve literally all of our issues by returning most of the templates to their former state. The only downside is looking ugly on mobile, and marginally slower load times.