User blog comment:Sannse/Important Updates on Wikia’s New Look/@comment-28861328-20100928225506/@comment-28861328-20100929032938

This whole thing is incredibly stupid. I don't care that Wikia wants to add a new look; that's all fine in my book, but they should at least make it optional. Not every Wiki is an encyclopedia; I get that. What I don't get is why all the Wikis that ARE encyclopedias like Star Wars Wiki or Bleach Wiki have to either get rid of the majority of their information and pictures or move to a new host site just because the Wikia staff REFUSE to listen to it's userbase.

Their plan is about to backfire on them, because from what I've heard, several wikis are moving to new hosts if the change goes into effect, my wikis included. This new look will even destroy the infoboxes on the various Wikis, and some wiki, like Bleach Wiki and my own Bleach Fanfiction wiki or Naruto and Star Wars Wiki have worked hard customizing their infoboxes to be unique to thier sites and now it's all gonna be thrown away. I'd be more sympathetic if the Staff was actually responding to criticism like this, but it's all, for the most part, being completely ignored. I've made up my mind; if these changes go through, I'm quitting Wikia. I can find a Wiki-like site that can accomplish the same thing without all the new look crap.