User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-3063725-20100817182140

Sure, it looks cool, but where is my easy one-click navigation and what is with all these extra "features"? "Create a new wiki", "Like" on facebook, "Share" on facebook etc, a massive bar on the right which does in no way support navigation for experienced users. This wouldn't be the first case of killing a user base by forcing a mandatory skin which makes navigating overly complicated compared to before. I don't want a hundred extra features, I want toolbars which support optimized, easy and fast editing, and all the tools at my disposal.

And making it mandatory is just a suicide move, you might have a lot of new features, but with such a drastic change like this you'll necessarily alienate a large part of your userbase, and this doesn't even take into consideration the possibility of a bad drastic change. If you really want to implement this, don't make it mandatory, and make it highly customizable with the possibility to enable and disable features on will. I will really just rage if I have an "Entertainment" and "Gaming" and "Lifestyle" button on top of my page, which then proceeds to open in javascript which will feel frustrating for anyone without an incredibly top-notch connection.

And one of the major things is actually moving the search-bar up left, making lazy and convenient surfing ever harder because it does really feel like a ton of useless and extra work when you have to adapt your surfing methods to a far-placed search bar (compare monobook).

On the contrary, this probably will make it easier to find new users, but I don't think you can afford making these your primary marketing group.

Then I was going to point out that positive criticism isn't always as thoroughly considered as positive criticism, which I could explain with a lengthy wall of psychology, but nobody cares.

Oh, because this is totally the right place to ask, could someone who bothers (after all these kind words) please change my name to "Dandybot", and if that's taken, then "Dandydandy", "Dandyel", "Messy Chaos", respectively, in that order of plan B's ^______^

Have a nice day, and sorry for the tl;dr!