User blog comment:Sannse/Important Updates on Wikia’s New Look/@comment-1733272-20100929041228

I know the fixed-width centre content column format is a popular trend in web design lately (capitalizing on the success of Facebook and its use of the design), but for most types of content it is a very poor design. It works for microblog-type content (such as the Facebook wall), and would even be effective for the main page of a wiki, but it's absolutely the wrong design for content pages.

Furthermore, changes to the menu are seriously detrimental to usability, to the actual function of a wiki as a resource for information. It seems basically like the site is being transformed from a wiki host to a social networking/microblogging site. This is essentially the purpose of this new skin.