User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-25273487-20150519174014/@comment-126761-20150519175353

We don't hate widescreen monitors, honestly. However, we did need to make a change for a couple of reasons - one the biggest being that with the range of devices people user to view Wikia, it was starting to cause problems. Frequently, because articles are often coded for the layout that the editor sees, the result simply doesn't work on smaller devices. If everyone sees a roughly similar layout, it avoids these kinds of issues.