User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Update Your CSS and JavaScript To Speed Up Your Wiki/@comment-7194-20120823132215/@comment-7194-20120823155306

That was my point. As an admin, my consideration is for the end user, and obnoxious features such as the four-element menu, arbitrary fixed width as well as the terrible right rail and enormous whitespace under it are obstructive and impact the actual usability of the wiki, particularly for logged out anonymous users.

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