User blog comment:Sannse/Important Updates on Wikia’s New Look/@comment-30099-20100929022319

Quite honestly, I'm confused. We're supposed to like this new skin when it destroys wiki individuality and outright annihilates the layouts on long-standing wikis?

The new style makes the wiki hard to navigate for those of us who have relied on the Monaco sidebar. Even then, overly narrow pages serve only to squish content and leave terrible amounts of monotonic whitespace that can better be served with, I don't know, actual content? For any wiki which relies on on the infobox model, you're forcing a major, unnecessary revision. And why are there article comments? One look at even a single page on the Twilight wiki shows it full of distracting natter and irrelevant information, which detracts from any serious wiki's attempt to report information.

When the text of an article only takes up a third of the available space on my screen? When I see so much whitespace that I ache to fill it up with information but can't? When you only have a week of public beta before moving ahead because you know that you're not going to listen to any complaints? I know that wikia is doing something that will, having already alienated many of its major editors, finally drive them out. Very little of the major wikis, save for those you yourselves edit, can last such a change.

Thank you, wikia. It's been fun. I'll give you that much.