User blog comment:Big the cat 10/A Veteran Admin’s Concerns Regarding FANDOM and UCP/@comment-25760276-20200821200128

I've been on the wiki for 6 of those 7 years, and not once has something deterred me more from participating on it until now. I myself have trouble focusing on specific lines of text if they're too condensed, which the new format absolutely is; it drives me insane just trying to read through them, compared to the older, much simpler way.

I use mobile a lot regardless (hell, I'm using it right now,) and I don't at all see how this is an improvement. Wikia just isn't as good to use on mobile, that's how it's always going to be, there's no need to cripple the leniency of desktop accessibility just so that mobile looks comparable. I won't sugarcoat it, these are horrible decisions.

I've seen a few people here and there defend it, too, with things like "it's not THAT much worse" or "it's hardly much of a step down." But who cares how much of a step down it is? A step down is a step down, there's no getting around that. Do you expect me to watch Fandom gradually make everything worse until the site caves in on itself, just because each change is only "slightly worse" than the last? This is ridiculous, stop the degradation of the site and maintain as many users as you can.

Quite frankly, if you think this is a minor impairment, you're not looking at the bigger picture. I'm clearly not the only one troubled by this, new users are turning away because of it, tons of people I know are turning away because of it, and I'm starting to as well. I don't care if Fandom changes and tries to improve, but that's not what's happening. The site is going down a steep hill; and it's a hill I don't want to die on alongside them.

Eat your heart out Fandom, this is a disasterous decision, and pretending it's universally amazing despite all the outcry is what is going to ruin you.