User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-1705800-20100820000538/@comment-761251-20100820083213

"enhance Monoco with different tweaks" is what they've done over the past two years, with the latest addition being facebook. Monaco has become bloated, many interface elements are styled in 3 different places in different ways, and it's high time for that skin to get a clean rewrite internally.

This internal rewrite would probably make people have to adapt their custom skins anyway, so it seems a good time to introduce a new look.

I just wish Sannse had stated the benefits that we're likely to see better. The "some highlights" section doesn't really get me to buy into the new skin.