User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Spring 2010 Update/@comment-4133-20100525201815

Not to be raining on everyone's parade, but I'm not really understanding the flood of positive comments (a lot of which seem to be almost spam in usefulness). Great, you fixed some of your old bugs with the RTE (but there are still many more). Great, you added the followed pages feature (which there were a ton of complaints about). Great, you made photo galleries easier to use (though there are still some quirks with that). I personally prefer to steer clear of Facebook and its privacy issues (though of course Wikia also wants to forget privacy concerns). Achievements are okay, I suppose, but is the sort of thing I believe individual communities should award (quality over quantity).

I would prefer you focus on server maintenance and speed improvements. Notably, the Monaco skin (the sidebar and JS in general) is still terrible as far as load times - I'm getting about 10-30 seconds depending on the time of day compared to about a second or two compared to the old Monobook or wowwiki (Monobook-based) skins. With Google starting to use site-speed as an indicator for result rankings performance is even more important for wikis to grow and retain users.