User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Prototype for a new article layout/@comment-366087-20141212235711

No. NO. N.O.

ENN OHH!!

The Right-rail content *as is* can be EASILY IGNORED by those (re: The Grand Majority of Visitors and Editors) who come to the page looking for SPECIFIC CONTENT. Placing it in the middle of content just means Wikia joins all the other generic web sites where people have to try and decide if something in the middle is *relevant* to the article or an AD, which BTW, might be a SAFE OR MALICIOUS LINK. So Just NO to that.

The Left Margin Controls Indent the content area too much, PLUS by following down becomes annoying. I'd rather see it at the TOP OF RIGHT-RAIL AREA (which means leave the R-R area alone), and PERHAPS repeated at the bottom of the page. Along with a *Top*(of page) command.

And STILL WAITING for the GLOBAL NAVIGATION to be made smaller, less obtrusive to the wikia content (really, what was wrong with the OLD Wikia Header??), and INHERIT THE LOCAL WIKIA's THEME. Many people, myself included, do a lot of our online activity in low-to-no light conditions, and Stark and Near-Stark white pages are glaringly harsh on our eyes. I should not have to keep a set of sunglasses handy for such pages. The Global Nav remaining universally Stark White and non-inheriting is a PITA.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT follow the model and example of DeviantART which has been irritating the majority of its membership by Presenting Proposed Changes, then IGNORING the FEEDBACK by doing the changes anyway. dA has been trying to "fit in" with other websites, notably Twitter and Tumblr, yet ignoring the fact the majority of their users do not care for such a trend. In fact dA used to have Like / Dislike buttons on their Official Journals, but disabled them because it was impossible for them to say "the feedback was on the positive side" when the Dislikes overwhelmingly outweighed the Likes.

So DDAD… DON'T DO AS dA DO!!

Change is not always a good thing, needed, or wanted.