Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5413643-20141203231947/@comment-1142365-20141220193442

Wanting this to be optional is unreasonable. The header should have a similar design across all Wikia sites. Making it optional removes this uniformity; that's not a good thing. It's not like message wall or chat, which are features. The site header is a user interface element, you can't have an "optional" user interface element. To have the old header and new header be available for use at the same time is probably worse than having the new header everywhere to be honest.

The issue here is the way cosmetic changes to the header are disallowed by the Terms of Use, when modifying how the header looks doesn't hinder its functionality. The colors of the header should be changeable, just so that it fits with existing wiki color schemes. It's really such a simple issue that doesn't need to exist.