User blog comment:GokūBlack10/A Fair Responce to Wikia's New Look/@comment-429401-20101004233500

Good summary / analysis Ten Tailed Fox with some valid points on the actions of some.

To me its the scale of change and some of the earlier changes which all add up to creating a bigger issue for some wikis & admins / users on them. All sites evolve, but it is what wikia is evolving into is the issue as much as the look.

Items like these blogs I hate because they encourage the spam type of contribution and posting of abstract comments.as these are suffering from, rather than straightforward discussions, on talk pages which tend to be moderated on most sites.

Yes swapping from monobook to monaco was 'strange' at first but it had more + points than - points were as Oasis/wikia appears to have a lot of negatives from our point of view with few if any gains for us as uses / editors.

One previous change was the sidelineing of the hubs that has been carried on in the new skin. A move that was introduced with the new style 'hubs/portals' that were supposedly been rolled out to all but were just 'initially' trialled (with a lot of the layout now in oasis/wikis) on the 3 main groupings. Wikis other than members of the Gaming, Entertainment or Lifstyle groupings are sidelined completely into a wilderness, with no links from main pages.

Wikia calling the skin Wikia instead of the codename Oasis is a move they may regret when as Devilmanozzy points out they roll out the next 'new look' in 2 years time. Like auto manufactures there is a cycle to these things and no doubt a face lift will appear next year to quietly address some of the usability issues 'we the users' already raised and others that will show up.

Life will go on at wikia whether we contribute or not, but some of the 2-3K visitors aday that visit 'my' site and many of the smaller wikis could grow to 20-30k like on the bigger game and show based wikis but only if they have the content continually growing. I've seen several forums split and the total of the 2 is less than the original had and grow has stagnated to the main core contributors few new ones consistently post, but then it is like clubs and many other groups in life the same few do most of the work to make them what they are.

(end of my ramblings for today)