User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-24844472-20150525075654/@comment-1038387-20150527100930


 * "Do you think that white space used to be there? Bigger problems after this update than before, and implementing minor fixes isn't going to be as helpful as rolling back to previous fonts for at least the pc skins."

That's a formatting issue on your part, not something broken by the update. It already looked (sorta) like that on smaller screens. If you have other problems, actual technical problems and bugs rather than a clash with your layout, send them to Special:Contact/feedback.


 * "This update may have not been focused on mobile, but that turns out to be what happened, and it should not have gone farther."

It didn't turn out. Smaller screens. Laptops, tablets, small pcs. Not mobile.


 * "Honestly, I still don't get how they could have given those examples, no one noticed anything drastic, and then (after the change was implemented) suddenly the conversation here exploded. Just look at the graph THEY give, it's compressed its cells, there's MORE WHITE SPACE. The same thing happened to the nav table as well, getting compressed horizontally, jutting out vertically. So, all tables immediately take up more page space, forcing more scrolling, increasing blank space, and making tables generally look poorly made because they don't fit in any skin, when before they at least worked for the pc skin..."

Everything already looked like that on smaller screens. It compressed vertically, and jutted out horizontally. The matter is not "pc skin" - the matter isn't even skins. The matter is there is no one size pc screen, and the Fluid Layout didn't give proper results across sizes.

You don't like scrolling? Small screen users already had to do that. You don't like whitespace? You need whitespace. Not many people will like reading a page that has large swats of text. Shorter lines are easier to read and make you less likely to lose your line.

Listen, not everyone likes this. I get that. But websites belong to the readers, and not everyone has the same screen as the writer. This update seeks to fix issues brought up by Fluid Layout. I haven't liked some of Wikia's plans in the past (especially Venus), but this solves an actual problem. A problem most complainers here didn't know exist, and didn't know they were causing.