User blog comment:Meighan/New Tools to Start & Grow Your Wiki/@comment-1393830-20110805204417

"Bottom line? This is meant to help, and where it's not helping we will fix those issues so it does, rather than just removing the whole feature." I strongly disagree with this sentiment. We are asking the feature to be optional because it is not helpful. Having worked on Wikis long enough, I know how to run a wiki and be an admin. The admin dashboard does nothing for me other than scrunching my content. This is not helpful. You have removed navigation from every single special page and stripped away the top buttons. Again, not helpful but extremely harmful. If I go to a special page now, I am stuck unless I click on a link. How is this helpful? What if I want to go to a page that is not linked from that special page? I hate always having to be negative but the fact of the matter remains that Wikia only answers the tech questions and refuses to respond to any of the complaints from experienced members who know what they are talking about. We try and offer simple fixes but you will not hear it. How many of my long rants will it take before you just sit down and listen to us? I once again say the simplest solution here is to make the dashboard its own page. You have the big link on the toolbar there already. Why do you need to place a giant bar on each and every special page? Please, please, please listen. The current set up is extremely harmful and you will only force more people to switch to Monobook. You have many good experienced members on Wikia who know what they are talking about. Listen to them for once.