Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5070188-20151014181107/@comment-5558012-20151014215306

Fandyllic wrote: Unfortunately, many of the visitors at Community Central forums really like to complain, but sort of pass on the constructive criticism part. Yes, so many people come here just to complain or tell Staff to revert whatever was done. Given CC is already not a representative sample of Wikia, adding a bunch of people seeking solely to complain and offer no alternative to address the change is even more useless.

Schiffy wrote: Mobile support is nice, but it's possible to make a mobile version of your site without changing the desktop version. Wikia tried making a site that looked more mobile for everyone. That failure was the Venus skin (containing ads in the middle of content as well).

A large number of people complained about the new breakpoints though most failed to realize that that change was a response to people editing only with desktops in mind, but blame Wikia instead of themselves. The font change was to help keep a more consistent layout across non-mobile devices (a huge design thorn with fluid layout as ever screen saw something different). Some font chooses were exaggerated, but the concept was on point.

Wikia is a for-profit company. In goes to show they are going to look for ways to do so. It's not always pretty for us, but there's a bit of mutually benefit by better promoting the company.

The global navigation ruffed many feathers. I can understand everyone's thoughts there, but the bottom line is that this was always Wikia's space. They let us change the color in the past. They had every right to seek consistency across all wikis. I initially didn't want it following me, but I grew to find that behavior very useful. The design (ignoring color) is nothing exciting so I changed it for myself.