User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-5645428-20150603110408

When these changes were brought out, I was thinking similar to a lot of people that Wikia had just found a perfectly functional element and decided to experiment with it for some abstract reason that wouldn't achieve any practical goal. After thinking about it a bit, I realised that moving from fluid to 'responsive' layout does make sense. I think that more emphasis should have been put on the intent of these changes, though, to improve what issues were caused by fluid, i.e. variable widths causing elements to react differently depending on how much space was given. Explaining something similar to this as a noticeable key point might have reduced the questionability of the layout changes. It's understandable when people can very well see an impacting change but don't understand why exactly it has to happen.

My own gripe lies with the fact a lot of margins have unnecessarily been widened. The edges of the page are made out to be twice as wide as before, with .WikiaPage having increased padding (except on the tablet width for some reason). This has messed up the visuals of profile page mastheads, the admin dashboard and its headers in particular, which are supposed to reach the content background border but are now separated. The dividing margin between the body content and rail is also wider. Everything sat nicely together before, so I don't see the reasoning behind this, especially since it doesn't appear as if articles have gained any additional space. Simply, there is a growing amount of unnecessary blank space for no functional benefit. The article headers are another example of this.

Keep in mind I am not viewing from Desktop XL so cannot comment on the font size changes. Please fix those elements in bold, and consider restoring the margins back to the compact and cleaner look of before.