User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Introducing Updated Global Navigation/@comment-452-20140924174247

Bob has a hammer. It's a great hammer, and Bob uses it all the time.

One day, Bob's friend Tom decides to improve Bob's hammer by replacing the hammer head with a spade. Tom tells Bob that now the hammer can be used for hammering and for digging, and that Bob should just accept the change.

The hammer is slightly less useful at hammering, but can still be used to get the job done. While it can also be used for digging, Bob doesn't dig that often. But he keeps using the hammer/spade for hammering, because it's the best tool available.

Sometime later, Tom decides to improve Bob's hammer again by replacing the handle with a rope. Now the "hammer" can be used digging and for... stuff ropes are used for.

While Bob's tool now has a larger variety of uses, it's now less useful to Bob, so Bob rarely uses his hammer anymore, and will probably go find a replacement for his current hammer.

This analogy isn't perfect, largely since Wikia owns the hammer in question and can do what they like with it.

But I'm Bob, and Wikia was very useful to me when I first started using it.

But every second time you "improve" Wikia, it becomes less useful to me and thousands of other people who liked the hammer how it was.

Edit: If you want to update your hammer to attract people who like spades and ropes, that's fine, but don't expect the people who starting using the hammer because it was a hammer to accept the change.

Specifically:
 * The notifications section is now less useful, since it is now inside the menu.
 * The header takes up additional screen real-estate, reducing my productivity - both due to the increased height, and being "fixed" and present while scrolling.
 * It is ugly, and does not follow the site style. (Although I notice that the search button on the Destiny wiki is a different colour.)