User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-1820055-20150525002215/@comment-452-20150527204425

There have not been 1500 people complaining that their layouts were broken.

I have not counted the number of people who have claimed their layouts are broken, but that's a great idea. I will count them later.
 * edit: The first 1,462 comments are from 329 users. Still tallying who complained for which reason. See below.

But regardless of how many people between 1 and 1,416 329 have complained their layouts are broken, the fact remains that 0 of them have posted a screenshot which demonstrated anything other than the font increase.

I counted them, twice. 0 both times.

In the first 13 pages, I tallyed 162 users into these categories:


 * 12 approvals
 * These people either stated they like the update, or approve of the reasons behind it.
 * This is not a representative sample, as there are always far more people who post when they dislike something.


 * 4 mixed approvals
 * A few people approved of one part, while disliking another.
 * The first user who noticed broken content accepted responsibility for how it looked, and approved of the change!
 * Two users approved of the width, but not the font size


 * 12 dislikes due to broken article content
 * These users have specifically stated that this update broke their content/tables/template/layouts.
 * Largely, the problems are things which always existed below 1600px, and are due to having been formatted without checking them below 1600px.


 * 5 dislikes due to other broken elements which are not "article content"
 * Broken due to custom CSS
 * Right rail broken, no link or screenshot, no response from Wikia Staff
 * "The new way is terrible when you're going to edit in a small screen." (Refering to the fact that the editor window now has forced margins below 1024px)
 * "do the editing spaces need to be so tiny? "
 * "custom background [...] has magically reverted to a plain pink one"


 * 85 dislikes due to the size/width
 * This includes people saying things now "look bad", without referring to it as being "ruined"/"broken"
 * Some of these complaints may have been regarding bugs, but it's hard to tell. I skipped anyone who specifically mentioned the early problems.
 * The majority of these users are Desktop XL users who simply want to benefit from their screen size.
 * Since they are not complaining of things being "ruined" or "broken", they are probably not the problem.
 * The fact that they "don't like it" doesn't invalidate the reason for the change, so I doubt Wikia gives them much weight. The fact that people "don't like" the larger font and thinner content area isn't their primary concern.
 * Wikia has indicated that they believe they are "helping" these users by adapting to their screen size.


 * 43 dislikes for nonspecific reasons
 * These users stated they do not like the update without saying why.
 * Due to this, I believe that their concerns will be given even less weight than the previous group.
 * It's again possible that some of these comments were regarding bugs.

There were also many bug reports regarding acknowledged bugs, and many of the same users posting multiple times. I'll get around to counting the rest "later".
 * 13/22 pages counted (59%)
 * 162/329 users counted (49%)

For the record, I've placed myself in the "dislikes due to the size/width" group, although I approve of the motivation behind the update, and can think of no alternative.