User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-872086-20100817204815

My instant response is...no!!!

First, I don't understand why you're moving the sidebar to the right, except to change things just for the sake of changing them. As others have pointed out, it's going to force infoboxes into the centre of the page. In the wiki I've been working on, we have thousands of pages with infoboxes. Up till now, it's been "sidebar left, infobox right". People need to be able to read the main text down the centre of the screen.

You're now providing only 2/3 of the screen for our text, instead of 3/4. With infoboxes and pictures, we need the space.

The big band across the top is basically useless. Okay, you want to provide a clear way to link between wikis; I get that. Again, though, you've spread it out so it takes up too much space. People need to be able to work with and around the wiki they're currently looking at. With that big, bold header, you seem to be suggesting that the really important thing is to quit looking at *that* wiki, leave and go elsewhere!

A lot of people have put work into creating an attractive logo for their site. From the example you give, you aren't putting that at the top of the sidebar any more. Again--this is a layout issue. Sure, it gives you the full sidebar; but at the cost of all the work *we've* put into layout. It's going to affect every page we've got.

As others have said, this is okay as an *option* for those who like it. (And people with smaller wikis may love it.) It definitely needs to be only an option, though. From the comments I've read, I'm not the only one who feels that way. We need to be allowed to keep the old design if we prefer it.