Thread:BertH/@comment-9154802-20170614150344/@comment-24922135-20170614162423

I absolutely agree with the "No one outside of Community Central likes these changes."

While I don't think the update is super terrible, it is a pretty bad update. The navbar update in particular irks me for two main reasons:
 * 1) I hate minimalist aesthetics. It comes off as cheap, lazy, and devoid of creativity. From a visual stand point the new design is not terrible, but it lacks any kind of character or identity. I can see that design/aesthetic working for fandom.wikia.com, but anywhere else feels all the worse for it.
 * 2) Where minimalism should make complex seem simple, this update makes simple seem complex. That's a roundabout way of saying that the attempt at minimalism has made the navbar menu clunky and finicky with smaller buttons and more obvious sub-menus.

The 'discussions' update in particular I do NOT look forward to. Let's deconstruct why using the Fallout Wiki discussions board. From what should be a supplementary system to the wiki, how do I access the wiki's content? Either search at the top or click the tiny button at the side. Which means two clicks minimum to get back to the recent activity page when having the wiki's navbar would solve that instantly. Why does the discussions page feel so separate from the wiki?

Aesthetically, it absolutely does not remind me of fallout. And by the looks of that banner, it's not as though many aesthetic options are available to amend that. In terms of the actual designs of the forums itself, it just feels like a cheap comments section taken from a newspaper website. Devoid of character of any kind. It looks to me like an attempt to copy what Reddit is but without the customisability (I know Reddit is getting rid of that, they're not smart for doing that either). Also; why replace Kudos with upvotes? Now I'm convinced you're trying to assassinate wikia's character.

On top of this discussions have no search option. How am I supposed to find an old thread like this? All in all, Discussions sound like forums but with all the good stuff gutted out of it.

But in the echo chamber that is Community Central, the yes-men that run this community will drive every OTHER wikia community into the ground.