User blog comment:BertH/Layout and navigation updates coming October 3/@comment-1435793-20120919225351

As you mentioned, many Wikis' background images are cropped specifically to have a hole spanning most of the center of the page, and I've found that in many places this is because of the Wikia limitation on background image weight (in KB). I know I ran into that problem with 3 of the 4 wikis I've made. Given that now that top part is no longer covered, and may grow to any arbitrary size (depending on the height of the ads, as you wrote) - is Wikia planning to increase the maximum background image weight, or are we expected to find a way to handle this new problem too?

Also I'd like to join in saying that, having previewed this new layout on various Wikis, I can say it is quite disappointing - all changes I could see were for the worse :(.