User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-257949-20100817175215

Assorted criticism:

Toolbar - things that stick to the bottom of my screen distract the eye and make me think of suspicious popups. No.

Layout - I hate a right hand column taking up a third of my user page, it looks tacky. When I'm trying to do a wiki project which is meant to be serious, it shouldn't look like a two-bit blog. And those buttons are way too garish.

Navigation - The current layout is fine, though it could do with some tweaking. That doesn't mean change it.

Notifications - Why? Most wikis don't have a community with hundreds of messages going past every minute, and fewer users are receiving the same amount at the same time. Why not the usual big orange bar? Change it so it'll say who it's from, of course, but don't give me some crappy popup.

Community activity - Okay, could be useful, but why not add that to the current layouts?

Look through the posts - as of writing, six of the eight pages of comments are negative. 75% - at least - of us, the people who are going to be using the skin, don't like it. At least half of the remainder want it to be optional. To throw away what must be months of work would be a waste, and it would displease those 12.5% of us who like it, but for God's sake, keep our current skins as options.

And Faern has a great point.