User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Prototype for a new article layout/@comment-8072-20141222061607

"In theory, this is a good idea but, in practice, the right rail has created some significant layout and UX (user experience) issues."

I'm sorry, but isn't this exactly what we (the users) said when this was introduced to begin with? Why has it taken so many years for Wikia to acknowledge that they were wrong, and the users were right? And now you want to introduce more mandatory changes that you are so sure about?

How about being more open to what the community has to say before developing ANYTHING new at all? The change in the top navigation bar is very similar to the dropdown menu that used to be there, that we were told couldn't be restored.

And now, you're seriously telling me that it's going to be back, and I have to reconfigure my top navigational menu again to resemble what it was BEFORE? Do you understand the definition of insanity?

And just for a refresher course, this is what you said in 2010 "We’ve nabbed some great web talent including experts in user experience, visual designers, front-end engineers, and community advocates, from the most community-focused companies out there. We’re using their experience along with a ton of feedback from user testing and brand surveys to create a bigger and broader Wikia."

This new "layout," means that all of those people were wrong. All of them. And so were your studies and research.

Are " Search, Random Page, and Recent Changes" still the most clicked links on all Wikias?

"There have been so many negative comments on the blogs, so why are you still moving ahead with this plan? Because it’s the right thing to do for the future of Wikia. We understand the caution of many of those commenting on the blogs, but we are also keeping in mind that this is just one of the many groups or types of users on Wikia. We are also looking at feedback from the beta testers, from focus groups and direct measurements of activity on wikis, and listening to our in-house experts in web design and user interaction. We are working to gather *all* the information we need to make this the best look possible for Wikia."

And look who was right and who was wrong. And think deeply about this.