Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5413643-20141203231947/@comment-452-20141204022001


 * More users using monobook will make Wikia lose money

Logged in users represent a small portion of Wikia's ad-viewing audience.

Monetarily, Wikia will not care if everyone who posts in this thread switches to monobook. It is unlikely they would even care if everyone in this thread stopped editing. (They may even be happy about it.)

Given that there is the explicit option in the preferences to "don't show all ads", they obviously don't mind logged in users hiding ads. They don't seem to mind people talking about adblock - but I may be mistaken and just not noticing the disappearance of pro-adblock posts.

Wikia also do not seem to have a problem at all with people advertising how to modify the bar through personal CSS. However, I have found both as an admin, and by noticed by watching RecentChanges here, that while few people complain, even fewer people bother to change their CSS.

For what it's worth, I don't support the immediately cessation of the current beta test. I support the permanent addition of an option to show the old bar - which would satisfy many people who have a problem with the new bar. (It is unlikely to happen, due to the extra maintenance required for future changes.)

It would be interesting if Wikia released percentages of which options users chose - and the percentages of "active" users who set any preferences at all, but I assume it is minuscule in comparison to the number of active users, let alone the total readership.