User blog comment:Hockeyben/The new look - one year later/@comment-3388044-20111016061929

I never used Monaco. In fact, I’ve never even seen it. So, for me, the difference is between Monobook and Oasis. At first, I really didn’t like Oasis and stuck to Monobook. However, my home wiki here at Wikia had been optimized for Monobook making it, at best, unsightly, and, at worst, unusable for Oasis users. This meant that while the wiki was useful for Wikipedians, it was unwelcoming to Wikians. So, I spent weeks updating the wiki to work equally well in both skins. This meant a lot of time spent working with Oasis. And, while I realize that this might get me shot, I’ve grown to like it and now work in it 90+% of the time. (On occasion, such as with complex template editing, I might still work in Monobook, especially when the new editor is likely to “break” something in that namespace, a likelihood that has been recently reduced.) One thing I like is the customizable toolbar at the bottom of the screen. I also think the look is more modern than Monobook. Some functionality has been lost (e.g., EmailUser; the red-linked option in search results to create non-existent pages; etc.), but all in all, I like it.

I agree with everyone here who has commented that the narrow content space is annoying. Plus, since it makes pages appear quite long, it can make reading an article seem, at first glance, daunting. I believe that the text should wrap under the siderail so that longer articles get more width from the point where the sidebar ends.

While I’m being honest, and at the risk of the issuance of a death warrant, I also like the revamped AdminDashboard; Wikia Chat; Profile Mastheads; WikiFeatures; the iterative, incremental (albeit slower than desired) improvements to the new editor; the new wiki navigation; etc.

The only new product introduced in the nine or so months that I’ve been here that I categorically do not like is ArticleComments 2.0 ( aka, MessageWall) and their ultimate replacement of all classic talk namespaces. For some wikis, their implementation could sound the death knell.

— Spike Toronto  06:19, October 16, 2011 (UTC)