User blog comment:Ducksoup/The Future of Infoboxes on Wikia/@comment-1295676-20150821232411/@comment-1295676-20150822184950

@DEmersonJMFM:

If the portable infoboxes are working better for you on your wiki, that's great. I was referencing the infoboxes on my own wiki, where the old infoboxes look better on the mobile skin than the portable infoboxes do. Looking back at my previous posts, I see I made something of a blanket statement, and for that I apologize.

@Dessamator:

I'm not sure I follow. If you're saying that the present infoboxes do not look good on mobile, then I agree with you. I think they look good on the desktop, and then a lot of that goodness disappears on the mobile skin. And if the portable infoboxes can eventually work better, then that is good news.

Perhaps I've worded myself poorly. I assume Wikia is putting these forth now so that editors will use them and give feedback. I don't have issue with that approach. But at the moment there does not seem to be much about the portable infoboxes to entice users to give them a try. There were several times while I was mucking about with the new templates that I had to stop and go do something else, because I was getting frustrated and wanted to throw my computer against a wall. I'm not particularly adept at coding, I've said so before. But if I'm the average user, what kind of impression is the average user getting?