Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-168424-20180521212704/@comment-180408-20180524171411

What's special about Monobook? Nothing. It was just the only way to imitate the Vector skin, because if Vector was available nobody would have cared much for Monobook. Consider how (Monobook disguised as) Vector is the default skin of MediaWiki and the whole Wikipedia world, which is a must for people who either:


 * Don't like "modern", multimedia oriented, mobile focused skins, and prefer something better suited for reading/writing text or photoshopping on a PC. You know, content creators.
 * Don't like to use MediaWiki without its native look.
 * Are part of the large Uncyclopedia family, which primary mission is to parodize Wikipedia and therefore need to look the same.

Maybe it's just a minority. But it's the same people who supported Wikia when it was just a startup. Insert your own swear words here.