Talk:The Future of Fandom

About how stupid this is
Sure, this will unite fans. Unite fans to want to change the logo back, as it's so ugly.

You change in Halloween
Change all blue

this futur is terrible
We try to make nice wiki, and we will have this thing purple with yellow text on the side ? https://i.imgur.com/8ujFQAT.png https://i.imgur.com/YkSsXPU.png You think that this is fine ? --GKPlight (talk) 14:51, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

“For the love of the fans”
We hate Fandomdesktop, is it not clear enough? People have quit because of your useless updates. If you cared for the fans you would listen to what they have to say, which is DONT REMOVE OASIS.I’m devastated, Oasis was a simple design that was quite good. There was no need for change yet you did it. Hope you change it. Btw the yellow bar sucks.

The Culmination of Poor Decision Making
"Most fans who come to the wikis land on a page that they found on a search engine results page, find the information they were looking for, and then leave without ever knowing they were on Fandom and all the great content that your wiki has to offer."

Yeah.

That's what a wiki is for.

If you care more about your branding than the functionality of your wikis, why have wikis at all? Sell them off to someone who actually wants to host a website for wikis instead of constantly sacrificing more and more functionality for the sake of trying to get people to read your articles.

Is this just me,,..
...or does the new logo remind me of the Miraheze logo? (Probably because they're both geometrical two-colour representations of something from nature: respectively, a fire and a sunflower.) KMFStudios (talk) 15:15, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Hey guys!
hey! I got idea! get wikia help!


 * That actually looks pretty good; it's a simple recolor but it definitely gives a more different vibe and a more welcoming one (I personally like it way more). I would recommend sending an email to zendesk to give feedback about the color scheme and showing them the image since it can be a pretty good starting point from there and onwards. 23:19, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I actually like it too! It's got a nice inviting feel but also gives off a powerful sense of passion. Good job!
 * I also like that! It's very nice and makes use of the original colors. I must agree, the vibe it gives off is very welcoming and strong.

"For the love of fans"
If there is love, why don't listen to fans? They don't want Fandomdesktop to be the only theme on this website. P.S. The logo is not that bad, but using mustard yellow as a header isn't a good idea. Itogi (talk) 16:35, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Fandom is ruining its design.
So first we has this AWFUL new design: At least it wasn't forced as soon as it came out, but now THIS which is forced right as it came out: This does not blend well with dark mode wikis. If you need evidence: I'm okay with you rebranding, but please don't force changes without the users' approval. Alesjif (talk) 17:00, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Preach! I use Opera GX with Darkmode, it just makes the yellow even more obvious, it's annoying. Robloxianredditor (talk) 17:23, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it's only vaguely distracting for logged-in FandomDesktop users (I don't have a problem too awful much with FandomDesktop overall), but for people still on Oasis (and logged-out FD users!) the garishness of the global nav distracts from the actual content. I kid you not, I screamed for a minute and a half straight "WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE THAT, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU", which is out of character for me even for the things staff has done in the past that I've strongly disliked or found accessibility issue with (see: I REALLY had trouble with the removal of Monobook but even for that I did not literally scream out loud about it. - Citrusellaeditswikis (talk) 18:21, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Oh, one more issue. You can't tell which messages are read and which aren't, making messages much less likely to be read.

So is it me...
Or will I be the only one staying in Fandom and getting used to Fandom Desktop while everyone else leaves Fandom just because they hate the new design? SafariKid2 (talk) 18:03, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
 * You're not the only one. FandomDesktop is actually an improvement for me, as it allows quicker access to wiki tools for the more experienced users. KMFStudios (talk) 18:12, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Did anyone ask for this?
I've been on Fandom for nearly 10 years now, with my original account dating back to 2011 or so. I've seen the site transition from Monaco to Oasis, ditching Monobook and forums, and developing Oasis 2.0 and I can safely say this is the worst revision of the skin for this site. All these dumb and restrictive changes have actively moved so many communities over to Miraheze or their own independent servers instead, and will cause more to do so in the future. So I sincerely ask, as a long-time editor, please don't force these changes that clearly no one is happy with.--Amelia:  The Dork of Steel  (T/C) 18:26, 3 August 2021 (UTC)


 * This is too drastic a change, I don't think I'll ever get used to it.


 * My complaint is only with the color of the global navigation and the logo. Mustard yellow is just too bright for the eyes, and the logo quite looks like Tinder's. --03:05, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

A Welcome Change
Wow, sorry to see all of the negativity and hate towards the new logo and branding. Sadly, fandoms are a two-edged sword, and when you bring all of them together, you often end up with a cesspool of toxicity.

Now, for my take on the updates. I love the FandomDesktop skin. It's 500x better than Oasis, which was very dated at this point. The new Fandom logo will take some getting used to, but I like that it contains a homage to the old one. The new colors of the global nav bar are nice, and it's good to see there are both light and dark versions.

To those whining about supposedly getting less customization and flexibility on the new skin, I challenge you to actually identify 4 or 5 things that you can't customize on FD that you could on Oasis. IMO, Oasis was much more restrictive, especially after the restriction that was put in place over the wiki navigation and header a couple years back.

Anyway, rant over. I'm excited to see what's next for the Fandom community :)

19:05, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

This hurts my eyes
Seriously. This is painful to look at. There's a reason people make fun of light-mode users.


 * Light mode isn't bad... when it's daytime. --03:05, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Not the best choice of colours
Sorry, but the colour of that bar is just offensively bad. I get your reasoning for doing it, to make people notice it, but right now it's a case of dragging peoples eyes away from the content they're here to see to shill them stuff they probably don't care about. I run a wiki with a primarily light blue theme and it clashes awfully with that, in either format (Oasis or FandomDesktop). I imagine the same can be said about just about any wiki here that isn't mustard yellow.

I know you can alter it in your preferences, but that isn't going to help the, on my wiki at least, 70-80% of viewers who are new and likely don't have an account. Trust me, they're probably not gonna make one just to make that go away, they're just going to leave. Ubiquitor (talk) 21:24, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I agree. This new color scheme is supposedly "versatile," but I think the previous colors were a lot more adaptable on wikis with custom themes. These new ones do not work well on any wiki that doesn't use these specific (or at least similar) colors. I'm all for redesigning and rebranding, and I personally like FandomDesktop, but it feels like they took a step back rather than a step forward with this.  O phissa  &#9993; 02:21, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

WTF
WHY REMOVE OASIS GIVE IT BACK PLS

You wanna know whats even more disgusting than this redesign?
The fact that some users are deleting other's comments that are criticizing the redesign. This is absolutely and utterly shameful, no wonder everyone refers to toxic communities as Fandoms rather than fanbases. CaptainGame17 (talk) 22:08, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
 * The only comments that were removed from here were ones that crossed the line from criticism into insult and violated the Community Central Guidelines. Like your comments. The rest that have been posted here are fine as long as they don't cross the line. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 00:17, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Neutral to this change
Not trying to harass or bully anyone on this talk page, but why all the hate? I'm actually pretty neutral to this redesign, because I've now noticed everything on FANDOM (even the logo) had changed.

Feedback on the new FandomDesktop Update
Your new "heart on fire" logo looks like it belongs to a dating app. It's the imagery of passion, just passion, not a project built on the foundation of passion. The blue bricks made more sense to me, I prefer that logo.

Also I never wanted a toolbar on the left AND the top of the screen. I don't even use the Games, Movies, TV, and Video buttons, why couldn't you just put all that under the Explore drop down menu on the top? I'm fine with having a toolbar, but you can clearly fit all of it on the top, even just the icons, I don't need another toolbar cluttering the screen. In fact, that should probably be a customization option, someone might like having it all on the left and nothing on top.

A lot of folks are unhappy about the colors, and I can see why. Think maybe the best way to go is more color schemes, like Slack chat, or full custom colors.

In general you can save yourself a lot of headache and vitriol by adding customization features. People don't like getting jerked around with mandatory layout changes, no matter how good your intentions. Tesseradical17 (talk) 16:31, 4 August 2021 (UTC)