Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-22224-20180521161500/@comment-1824272-20180521220454

I see two things happening here that have happened every time a big change happens on FANDOM:


 * 1) Old-timers who are absolutely resistant to change cannot cope with a single pixel being out of place from what they were used to 10 years ago. This needs to change; some of the users in this thread need to grow up and stop assuming everything coming out of corporate is a lie. There are many modifications people can make to the colors, images, and layout on Oasis through Special:ThemeDesigner. Someone said "I just looked at our wiki in Oasis and it looks terrible"... well yeah, that's because you never bothered to work on it. Figures were provided months ago that indicated LESS THAN 1% of all people using FANDOM use the Monobook skin. Even if it wasn't for GDPR, this was inevitable at some point and you guys need to accept that fact. You've had many, many years to join the rest of us who are working with FANDOM to improve Oasis with our feedback and our designs.
 * 2) FANDOM has no idea how to make an announcement or to prepare its volunteer administrators with enough time to meet certain demands. This needs to change; FANDOM Staff (I'm talking to the people behind Tim, not only Tim himself), you have got to realize that giving your users LESS THAN A WEEK to match your announcement is appalling and absurd. There are many templates to fix; there's a lot of CSS and JS code modifications to port over in some cases; infoboxes render completely differently; there's a whole host of different MediaWiki messages that the admins have to get accustomed to now; they need to design a new wordmark; and that's not even touching any of the articles that have been written and coded with Monobook in mind. You guys should have realized that you didn't have the resources to update Monobook to comply with GDPR months ago, according to Timmy talking about updating Oasis, etc. to comply. I highly doubt the decision to retire Monobook was finalized one week ago. Wake up and realize that your wiki admins are volunteers with personal lives, jobs, school, and more. You need to give these guys way more time than this to adapt. Five days is horrific.