User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-452-20150415180356/@comment-452-20150415232124

Thanks for the reply. I'll read that as "we've scrapped all existing plans to remove it".

The problem with ads in the content is not about "reader experience", it is about the "contributor experience".

I use Wikia because the "content" is in clearly defined area, distinct from where your global stuff is, and where the ads are.

"The deal" as it currently is:
 * We don't mess with your headers/footers/modules/(whatever else you lay claim to)
 * You don't mess with our content.

I'm not referring to "messing" with content typography, although others might. So long as you allow communities to ultimately decide what font and size works for them in order to present their content, then I don't mind default font-size changes. I personally don't agree with the fonts used on several wikis, but that is a community-level issue, and not a wikia-level issue, and I respect the fact that communities have the freedom to decide these things for themselves.


 * The rail is a partially grey area, because you allow additions to it. When I wanted to add content to is, I asked, and I recognise that this policy may change, at which point I expect to be politely informed of it.
 * I have also asked in the past about adding content to the "on the wiki" tab, which Wikia Staff first allowed, then claimed it was a TOU violation despite giving me permission, which was rude, but Wikia's decision to make.
 * It used to be that wikis could skin, or at least recolour, the global nav, but you've decided to take that back.

And that's fine, you can have the global nav, and the "on the wiki" tab, and the right rail, and the full page background ads. You have your branding, and your ads, and we have our content.

But every time you make a change to reduce what's allowed, or to increase your control, I can't help but think: