User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Wiki Video Types and How You Can Create Them/@comment-28991887-20170421002509

Many of us users are "writers," "builders," "editors," and "readers." Why does it feel that with this the Fandom staff wants to change this to "reviewers" and "listeners," and "viewers." The necessity for ads is understandable but the site is going further from appreciating loyal users to random visitors, or is that the goal here? And what tactics is the site using to pay for an expert video team and the staff required for these projects? If it is coming from the daily people who visit Fandom then instead expand the development team to fix the most basic features. Maybe then casual editors can actually use features like the visual editor and infobox builder issue-free and it’s guaranteed that colors used for the syntax highlighting feature won’t jump off the screen without warning. To further prove this point, I’m even using Microsoft Word right now because I’ve experienced far too incidences while writing in the comments that the entire passage literally disappears or doesn’t publish properly and has to be entirely rewritten. I don't run the site nor intend this comment to hold much if any contempt, but many of these recent advancements are proving to not feel completely ready if even normal people/users can easily point out flaws such as the new count for those in the chat or that it took even me a moment to know what that arbitrary group of user avatars were below wiki activity, now imagine if I were a new user (both were from issues from the new rail implemented), or '''that while watching the Harry Potter video and had scrolled down, the audio literally doubled. And no that was not a one-time thing, it happened even after refreshing and using it on the other browsers I have on my computer.''' I bolded that last sentence since there’s a small feeling that it won’t be read at all if it isn’t specifically about this blog alone.

Anyway, since all criticism must be meant with praise, at least in my book, the design really is appealing. Outwardly, the site looks cleaner and yes, more modern. I had fallen in love with the Fandom logo and liked it when I saw it on the videos. The graphics fit well with the Fandom theme, not so much the community theme however, perhaps that’s what would be up for suggestion by communities that this would undoubtedly benefit, one of my favorite wikis not being one of them honestly, as it’s focused more on images. Anyway, the League of Legend video, it’s positioning was perfect and complemented their community’s overall look and made the page come together. However, I’m not an active user nor editor for that specific community, but that’s my own opinion on it. Although the sizing was large I like the video player, the buttons were easy to click which would work with those communities that have custom mouse pointers that often have large tips, Disney being one of them.

Since I’m now done with the unnecessarily lengthy comment, onto my final words: Please take into account the many different personalities the hundreds of thousands of communities here have before making anything “mandatory.”