Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-24930713-20150821025353

@Dessamator It's not weird, wikis are communities, meant for everyone to contribute to. Not every wiki has the same level of vandalism or destruction that others may have, that would justifiably warrant locking part of a feature away so the average "vandal Joe" can't get to it. This template draws a deeper and darker line between regular user and admin. Effectively keeping regular users from being more than just editors. Because even if the new template is easy for them to pick up, without a higher status on their wiki or the okay from an admin, all they've created is a box.

The current templates aren't perfect, but neither is this. The current template has everything I need/want right when I need/want it. I don't have to wait, I don't have to purge anything. I can just build a template, style it, if it doesn't look good in preview then I can keep tweaking it until it does.

I'm not sure what point you were trying to make, your second link went to a non-existing page.

The point of evolving is to be better than before. But how are you better than before if you have to take several more steps than what you used to do just to do the exact same thing?

What's really weird is that Wikia makes frequent edits on their side, and they've clearly mentioned before how they don't recommend changes via CSS because of this. Yet at the same time, Wikia also makes a template who's styling relies on CSS outside of the template. Oddly enough, no one is worried about it or the possibility that CSS could be locked at any moment thus halting any styling anyone wants to do across Wikia. So why exactly should I back myself into a corner and basically turn myself into a regular user at Wikia's whim?

If I'm understanding correctly, other than having imported the styling from an outside source before hand. There's no way around it, should CSS get locked again. Are the new templates immune to any changes Wikia makes, in case something they add affects wikis' CSS?