User blog comment:BertH/Layout and navigation updates coming October 3/@comment-1411998-20121004082813/@comment-957747-20121004140801

We do care about Monobook and the users that choose to use the skin. That's the main reason the skin still exists. We simply do not release new features for Monobook. This is more-over a request from the Monobook users themselves rather than a decision from us. Monobook users requested that we "leave Monobook alone" and for the most part, we've done that.

Every now and then, a change we make in the Wikia skin affects Monobook users. This is unintended and we typically correct the issue within a few days to a week or it being reported.

That being said, this is happening because the code thinks that Monobook and the Wikia skins are equivalent and is forcing Monobook into the grid layout... which is obviously causing oddities. The fix for it is already in place and should be on next Wednesday's code push.

Also, keep in mind that the blog is not the best place to report issues/bugs. Please send them in to Special:Contact. We don't want to miss a bug and reporting it that way ensures that we don't.