User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: August 15, 2016/@comment-452-20160816195834/@comment-25483420-20160816202725

well we are outside the internet design era of "lets put gradients everywhere!" afterall

I don't really have an opinion on the footer, I never notice the thing anyway.

Gwiwer, No MLG in my presence plsgwig please. 20:27, August 16, 2016 (UTC)

UPDATE: it's probably best to add a expand/contract arrow to it because people hate it being so huge.