User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-1786037-20100817174007

Why does Wikia have to come up with a new feature labeled as "improvement" to "encourage new users to join the site" every other month that in the end many (if not most) people dislike? New users will not know the current layout, so how would a new layout attract new users? And why does the current layout not do so? There is no logic in that reasoning.

I would wish that Wikia would stick more to the rule "Never change a running system", and if changes are planned, Wikia should ask the community first if they want that change and not present the changes as facts. After all, the community has to live with them. This also implies that changes should be optional as much as possible (which would even cause more diversity among the wikis).

Search bars on the right are awful. Wikipedia demonstrated it the bad way with their new layout. Why does Wikia have to look like a Wordpress blog or Facebook page? There are enough sites with that layout out there to get bored by it. The eye-catching advertisement for other wikis at the top is an absolute no-go (the currently visited wiki should have focus and not other wikis) as is that toolbar at them bottom.