Thread:TableWiz/@comment-23989026-20150521000609

"Apparently Wikia's train of thought is that, if one screen looks bad, better make every other view look equally bad."

"Now wikia is unusable on mobile because it's locked tight on on the left side."

"Having a large screen is now an issue for me. I like to read long pages like history of an event or character and now I can't stop scrolling down for a second as I read."

"Ugh, it's live. please, someone gouge my eyes out; never mind, Wikia's already done it. I don't even have a wide monitor and now I feel like I'm using my grandma and grandpas computer."

"You want people to fix things for laptop and tablet users by stuffing up things up for desktop users? How can a desktop users say it looks good when the size of the font is so large that it looks like something I'd expect to see in a kid's pre-school? It makes the wikis looks amateurish."

"At tablet portrait width, the content width should expand to fit the full screen width. It just looks weird with empty bars down the side, making an already skinny view even skinnier."

"I just logged into my big screen to see what all the hype is about, and man does it look bad. The forum post headings are smaller than the text."

"The text is so large, I feel like I could pick my keyboard and mouse up and sit another meter back and still be able to read clearly. Increasing the text size increases the length of a page, not to mention it ruins a lot of the coding people have thrown in."

"Speaking as an Administrator, I must express my most profound disappointment with this update. Thanks to the changes in this update, many of our articles are no longer displaying correctly and we are now facing quite possibly months of work just to get back to where we were before the update. Countless articles which previously fit perfectly are now compressed to scroll bars a fraction of their appropriate size."

"So I'm now able to move left and right and up and down on the full site on my phone. However, I'm unable to pinch, and scrolling is very slow and laggy."

"Thank you for breaking your own website again. Oh well, have fun with your 10,000 broken communities now. Large text is dizzifying. It's uncomfortable to look at."

"This change was SO DEMOTIVATING! Instead of bringing new people to the community, has actually had the exact opposite effect. I don't even want to edit (not to mention, even visit) my most beloved wikis anymore. I'd better find a new hobby to fill that hollow space you brought into my life..."

"This was a low blow from your part, and I'm saying this because clearly this update wasn't even beta tested, as many of the complains cited here are from mobile users who suddenly found their sites' functionality hindered, filled with bugs, not being able to scroll or even reach certain parts of a page."

"Now we are literally at the point where---whether you are on a cell phone, tablet, or a computer---everything is smashed together in perhaps the most tacky, unprofessional, and downright horrendous layout ever produced. How dare your valuable editors and admins have a singular consistent design, that doesn't rob content space and still looks good on both their laptops and mobile devices! I mean, you people treat it like rocket science."

"What amazes me is that the people who are complaining about this change are predominantly Wiki editors/administrators/bureaucrats - namely the people who make it worthwhile coming to Wikia.com in the first place. Without us you would have very little content to bring people here."

"The wikias now look like they were designed for preschool children."

"I can see where Wikia is coming from, but the small fraction of us are the ones who are giving the content. So why would we need to sacrifice our experience..."

"The point is not to make dramatic global changes without proper consideration of their consequences. One day we are doing our normal stuff, then suddenly the Wiki goes awry and we have to rush to rescue it from falling apart."

"Trying to artificially obtain that magic number by increasing the font size is just bad. It's no better than a student increasing their font size to meet the minimum page requirement for a school essay."

"You shouldn't implement such large-scale changes without some sort of Preview/Trial first. Wiki pages have a Preview button. Why don't you have one too?"

"The update happened just as one of the other admins returned from hiatus. He was so horrified by the huge text and broken layout that he actually considered immediately going away for another hiatus. Now, instead of doing actual work, we are looking for ways to remedy the damage."

"Wikia staff ought to have made attempts to communicate with the moderator teams of as many wikias as possible well in advance of the switch being flipped. Many wikia editors are not skilled web designers or especially tech-savvy. They aren't necessarily following every technical change proposed via the Wikia community wiki and they aren't necessarily skilled enough to know how to fix everything efficiently when the foundations of their wikis are changed. They've learnt by doing, by copying and pasting what works, by tweaking individual values here and there to try their best to provide as much information in as clear a manner as possible. These dedicated amateurs have created and maintained the content that brings people to wikias for anything and everything."

"What is Wikia doing?! This is like having a mobile website on a desktop!"

"I'm not very technically astute (coding and so on); but this update was one of the worst planned and executed I've ever seen. I couldn't see the full site on any of my devices. I couldn't post, as the *post* button was so far to the right, I couldn't see it, much less click on it. Same for notifications symbol. If this happened in my company, the person responsible would have some serious explaining to do."

"It hurts my eyes greatly to read huge text. To counter having to move my eyes so much I've zoomed out to 90% so I can read the content without getting eye strain and headaches."  