Board Thread:New Features/@comment-20644-20170522203248/@comment-32638135-20170522235451


 * sigh*

It looks like the ultimate goal is for all wikis to look exactly the same, except for different colours.

Customisation isn't "making wikis feel separate and inconsistent" — it's typically about providing variety and making wikis more relevant to their content. I can understand removing over-customisation in JS, but why CSS? Changing a fount or tweaking borders on a menu won't confuse users — rather, it strengthens the ties between wiki & content and community & wiki, and makes wikis seem more interesting and colourful rather than merely arbitrarily delineated collections of pages on a massive site.

As Fandom moves towards becoming a centralised, corporate, and bland site more like Facebook, and less a mosaic of vibrant and dedicated communities passionate about their content, I fear the worst for Wikias. No longer is this website hosting myriad sites, each a self-dependent community about their topic, but rather simply a giant megacorporation that believes a wiki about Sushi should always look and feel just like a wiki about Runescape, and that it should be indistinct from anything else.

This is just my opinion, and I may turn out to be completely wrong, but for now this is my firm belief — the stained glass that Wikia was is now being melted together into a grey translucent blob called Fandom.