User blog comment:Sannse/Important Updates on Wikia’s New Look/@comment-1248963-20100928224943

"This has been a very useful process and we are still gathering feedback and bug reports from all testing groups"

Has it really? All I see is people hating and hating and complaining about the new look, about things that need to change about it and yet you INSIST on shoving it down our throats. Are you really gathering feedback? Are you even reading at least 1% of the comments you get on this New Look? NOBODY wants it because there are so many things that are wrong with it.

Sidebar size is crushing the articles. It gives priority to advertising other wikis, where it should give more importance to the CONTENT of the article. They look completely crammed and awful, I don't even want to think of those articles with tables, pictures infoboxes. This is killer for fuctionality and all for advertising. When did Wikia become a site for self Advertising is beyond me.

Showing the names of the editors anywhere on the article is the stupidest idea ever. But showing the name of the uploader of EVERY picture is simply wrong. It adds nothing to the articles, kills aesthetics, and let's not talk about users with long names, or names such as "jivkylflg". I don't even want to think about it.

I mentioned this in another blog, but I'm repeating it here I was under the delusional impression that Wikia was a Community, yet even if the Community shows a general disapproval for the Change, central Wiki isn't giving any solutions or propositions that will make this change more functional and likeable to the Community. It's a "Like it, good. Don't like it, Die" business that will end up messing up with most wikis. I've seen people from LOT of different wikis here to showcase their dislike for this New Look and Central isn't providing satisfactory answers or solutions to them.

You have to understand that we don't oppose change. We oppose the way you're giving us that change because it is not functional and it is totally against the Wiki concept in itself. Wikis are encyclopedias, Wikis are meant to gather information, they're about their articles, yet you're compartmentalizing articles to give more space for Ads. It's absolute nonsense