User blog comment:BertH/Wikia's evolution continues with VisualEditor/@comment-3441771-20131016145259/@comment-5076341-20131016174413

As with many of your comments, I agree whole-heartedly. I love using scource mode, and just by looking at the awful state of the Visual editor, I shudder to think what the scource mode editer will be like. As I said with the new forums, I hope it remains optional, or at least keep the classic editor going.

Also in line with my veiws on the forums, I think that although this will encourge new users to join, it will allow them to be lazy and reley more and more on the visual editor, until all knoledge of how to code in wikitext is lost, and all of our articles will be bland and rid of formatting (although by then I don't doubt that wikia will have implemented a way to put basic formatting in anyway, even if it isn't to good).

Despite how it may seem, I am not against people finding things useable and the pace of progress. I just think that for those of us who are experienced should be allowed to make articles better in our ways, and that people should be encoureged to do well and to learn the hard stuff. Goodness knows how people are going to make custom CSS and the like without even knowing wikitext.

On the bright side, wikia have decided to put in the fluid backdrop, which is technically irelivant, but at least highlights that project Darwin is working a bit. (although on some wikis; such as Locomotive Wiki, I think Oasis works best.

If anybody is wondering why I don't just use Monobook, it is because I like Oasis (It's all i've known really) and Fluid. I just dislike the new visual Editor, this is not to do with the current editor, project Darwin, or the skins.