Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-22224-20180521161500/@comment-1038387-20180523104552

The official Takis wrote: So we are talking about 250-500 users and 15 wikis??? And I guess these wikis are only the Uncyclopedia ones... Their purpose is to gain money from ads set in Uncyclopedia wikis too, but they decided to "kill" these wikis in order to do it.

-Does this have any meaning since everyone is happy with monobook? -Have you thought that Uncyclopedia wikis are going to lose thousands of readers due to your decision (and this means that a huge amount of money for Wikia is going to be lost too)???

Wikia is not happy with Monobook. Even Wikipedia is not happy with Monobook, that's why they have Vector. It was nice 10 years ago, but just doesn't fit in the modern landscape of web design anymore. Ads are only a part of that. They were always plans to sunset it sooner than later. Times change, and as a website, you've got to change with it. Monobook was created before the smartphone, and now, about half of views, if not more, is through a phone or tablet.

I don't know about the readership on Uncyclopedia, or the ad revenue. I don't think they break it down on a per-wiki basis, so it's impossible to tell. The bean counters probably took it into account in their calculations and decided it wasn't worth the extra work. This isn't as simple as simply doing one tiny little thing. It'd be a substantial increase in workload, for something that's past its prime and can't deal with the main infrastructure demands.

It's a done deal now. They thought it over. No amount of complaining will make them reconsider.