User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-1333764-20100818234543

I'm voting against the new design. Seems like we are loosing a lot of screen real estate with the widened vertical menu and the additional horizontal area. I think the vertical menu (if you insist on expanding it and putting it on the right) could be about half as wide and still provide the same amount of data.

I think there would be a lot of cases where a design that depended on the menu being on the left would become cumbersome with the menu on the right.

I definitely agree that the Monaco skin should remain as an option.