Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5076341-20141124191243/@comment-5973717-20141127171732

Personally, I'm glad that Wikia is at least trying to update the editor for the Wikia skin. I admit that they made it worse, but I appreciate effort. If you hate ads, either turn them off, or get adblock+. I disagree with many of their decisions, but I admit that Wikia had good reasons to make a custom skin. Have you ever tried to build extensions for Monobook or Monaco? The source code is a trainwreck.

Regarding the social features. I think that they are a good idea in theory, but Wikia's implementation is bad. Instead of having just Facebook or Twitter globally, I think a radically better idea would be to implement the top 12 social networks, and have wikis and individual users be able to turn them on and off individually, with all of them off by default. That would meet peoples needs a lot more. Wikia already does this with chatrooms, blogs, and forums. Let's build on that success.

Honestly, as a web designer, I like a flatter design. It allows for better rendering and makes the pages easier to read.

I agree that there are many crappy admins. But I don't think that staff are the issue. I think that the real problem is crats who promote admins without enough consideration. Shame upon all of them.

Regarding the censorship problems; Wikia is 13+, and should stop having so many problems with it. I think we should scrap the current system, and replace it with this: Have Wikia make some reasonable global rules, such as a rule against hosting child porn on Wikia's servers and a rule against using Wikia to conspire to commit felonies. After banning the extremes, have the individual wikis make their own rules regarding minor things like cursing. This would allow for more freedom, reduce Wikia's workload, and improve communities.

Batch uploading should be a feature that can be turned on and off by admins. It's abused in many cases.

Many of Wikia's changes aren't proprietary. The only reason that the proprietary ones aren't pushed back into Mediawiki is because half of the time, the features aren't accepted. But if a user deliberately develops something that requires proprietary features, that's their own fault.