User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-791183-20100818165841

Here's the thing. It looks cool because of the bar at the top, yeah it has a nice look. But if you look closely, all it is - it's advertising other wikis. The text is so big and highlighted, it's bigger than your own content and it's just putting it in the reader's face to look at the other wikis.

Another problem with this is that it gives the impression that the wiki you're currently looking at is only a mere one compared to the thousands there are already. It's advertising Wikia and it's basically saying that this mere website belongs to another company. But with Monaco, readers get the impression this website is very much run by itself and not like piczo where there are tons of crappy websites.

So, if you're going to remove the big inter-wiki links on that bar, there is no reason for that bar and you should just remove the bar. If you remove the bar, there is no point of a new skin as there is nothing good aesthetically.

No bar = No skin = Fail

So, you guys have kind of shot yourself in the foot as there as no way of fixing these problems without removing the skin altogether because the skin will be redundant if these new (but useless features) are removed.