User blog comment:Sannse/Important Updates on Wikia’s New Look/@comment-1429792-20100929115009

Thanks for providing a timeline for all this, but seriously, you've got to be kidding me? Yes? You are rushing this and all you are succeeding in doing is making everyone angry with you (or rather even angrier). Cop yourselves on would ya. This is not ready for implementing yet. We all know that, so how can you not? Why such a rush?

The closed beta testing is drawing to a close? Thanks for telling us (those very beta testers) that! It will be good to see what you have got to say to all that feedback. Hopefully it will be more extensive and less evasive/cryptic than before. It better be if you want to get people to go along with this.

"We know you’ve put a lot of work into making your wikis look great in Monaco..."

Yes, but you're still going to kick us in the teeth regardless and force us to start from scratch. Way to endear yourselves to us and convince us to accept the new look. I do not think that you should be setting such a close deadline when we have not even gotten to try out the theme designer yet. It is good to have faith in yourselves that you made a brilliant tool blah blah blah, but what if it is bugged as hell/isn't as useable as you thought and needs a lot of work to improve/fix. Releasing at such a late stage and leaving so little time to resolve any issues that come with it does not seem very smart. I know you have said that you will continue to develop and refine the skin after the switch, but why not have it as ready as possible before switching off the old look? It should be as finished as possible. Why such a rush?

Staff have stated that they are looking at putting the infoboxes and other content into the (exceedingly fat) right sidebar. I would not want this new look change to be made until that idea is ready.

You need to clarify your terms of use. Can admins move things for all users around so long as they are still actually there? Like say move the right sidebar to the left, or push the wikia hub navigation bar right up against the top of the page? Etc etc.

We at Bleach Wiki are evaluating our options to move to another host if you do not put this right. I had been against this idea, but I am moving more and more in favour of it after this. And I see that many other wikis are considering this too, indeed some have already moved? Wow, just wow Wikia. Surely you realize that this is an ongoing disaster right now...

You have a lot of questions to answer and I am looking forward to your explanations, but I am no longer hopeful over all this.