Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5070188-20151014181107/@comment-1387259-20151014190856

But Wikia's old styles aren't inefficient. They were far more user-friendly, whereas the new styles are monetary-friendly (remember the short period of time they tried to put ads in the middle of an article?). And Wikia pretty much has a monopoly on the market, short of Shoutwiki, which does not try to usurp Wikia, or people buying their own domains (e.g. Bulbapedia, UESP).

Mobile support is nice, but it's possible to make a mobile version of your site without changing the desktop version. Skype made this mistake. They tried to turn the desktop version of their program into a copy of the tablet version, it's why I still use version 6.21.0.104. The new style looks horrid and actually took away some features.

To add, I don't really care for the Wikia mobile apps that you can find on, say, the Google Play Store. They don't do enough justice to the actual wiki by removing all the custom styles that the local sysops worked hard on, and frankly, they don't really give credit to the editors. They give off the impression that all the information was added by the app developers. At least the mobile sites have a "last edited by" notice on any given article.

If you want to bring in more readers, don't drive away the editors.