Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-22224-20180521161500/@comment-5956954-20180528173151

Raltseye wrote:

Well then, what if you want to work quick. Then how pleasant is it to be slowed down by and forced to fight the platform? It is pleasant there is a solution to this issue, as I said above: "In the "My Info" tab under "Appearances", you can change your "landing page" from the "Main Page" to "Wiki Activity" or "Recent Changes." This solves the advertisement problem from "landing first" onto the only page with ads."

To add, landing on "wiki activity" or "recent changes" is a much better place to start when you want to check up on how the wiki has been while you were gone. I have no interest otherwise in the main page of the wiki that should only be touched by administrators.

LYRIC-Stormwatch wrote:

They say a picture is worth a thousand words... https://imgur.com/a/0fqsoLP I see nothing that is actually wrong in this picture:
 * 1) The "trending articles" section is not intrusive and can be an interest to people.
 * 2) The "wiki activity" tab is "junk", apparently. I see someone edited a page 10 seconds ago. Perhaps that could have been vandalism. You wouldn't have known as quickly if you used Monobook.
 * 3) The "chat" section is "junk" apparently. I wonder how else people can find out a live chat exists and have a means to get there.
 * 4) The "fan feed" section aggregates what may or does interest you, allowing you to continue being up-to-date with content beyond the "actual content." It also only appears in as much quantity as presented when you go out of your way to break from the content, meaning it is not intrusive to the content you clicked for.
 * 5) I personally find the whitespace not to be a problem and even kind of useful with it creating specifically-sized side margins. I am told to use a 2.5 cm margin when creating my essays so the marker's eyes don't have to run a marathon to the side of a paper, so keeping the writing more centered and streamlined has everybody win. Oasis' margins make it easier to pay attention to the wordy content than the stretch Monobook can create on monitors with a high resolution.

Overall, I personally don't see how what the picture presents is objectively a bad thing. Rather, I see the dislike being a subjective preference, which is fine. I prefer Monobook for being cleaner in some cases, and my box-shaped monitor doesn't have the text stretch as much, making the lack of wordwrapping more tolerable. I can only see two objective arguments against Oasis here:


 * 1) Because there are more pictures outside of the content and generally more preset stuff, it will cost a lot more bandwidth to load the page completely, which can be a problem for those on limited data plans. Thankfully, this can be solved by selecting "don't show all ads" after you sign up with a wiki account.
 * 2) Most of the important links FANDOM has to offer, such as Special:Contact, the Terms of Use, etc. are below the fanfeed. I believe this should swap positions so time to load the fanfeed to access this footer is omitted so these important links can be accessed as quickly as possible.

Other than that, I personally don't see any issues. What is considered to be "junk" can easily be ignored as you pay attention to the content that the advertisement and other stuff do not cover over, destroy, or intrude in other ways like my screenshot demonstrated.