User blog comment:Sannse/Sneak Peek at the New Look - Your Personal Toolbar/@comment-257949-20100922150747

I am intensely annoyed with all these executive decisions supposedly for our benefit. All us current users were attracted to Wikia by the old format - and we are nearly all in complete opposition to the new layout. Even those who do like it say that the old formats should be kept.

"While there is some negative as well as positive feedback here, there is also a large majority that haven’t responded yet to the new look - including many active users or visitors to Wikia. So gather their input we are using in direct user testing, focus groups, and indirect testing via click tracking and so on."

'Some negative feedback'? How much is 'overwhelming' then, in your books? Most of the world's population? Because I know overwhelming when I see it, and I see it here.

'A large majority that have not responded to the new look' Might this be because they feel all they think needs to be said against this crazy proposition has been said? And I say that the thousand or so of us who have commented over the various blogs dedicated to the new idea represents a pretty decent portion of Wikia users, and their opinions.

Moreover, why are you only replying to people who ask technical questions? Won't you give us the courtesy of refuting our arguments, however harsh they (and yours) are?

And finally, thanks for taking away my way of choosing skin colours. And adding some crappy 'read more' section that looks sickeningly unprofessional and ruins the layout of my articles. For an organisation which values 'communities' so highly, you sure know how to alienate them.

Us.