User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-1250011-20150527041809/@comment-4189499-20150528112246

Oh sorry, I thought you hated white space. Anyway, it can be hard to remember spacing if you're being distracted by the TV while typing your response on a small screened laptop while sitting on a comfy couch under a warm blanket. Oh wait, you can't empathise with that. You can't do that with a desktop, especially not an XL desktop. What a shame.

It must also be a shame to realise that your argument that this update will "force[] [your screen to look like] 4:3 cause other people might still use 4:3 (hello ancients!)" (from further down the page) is completely invalid. People are benefiting from this who have modern computers with high resolution screens such as myself. It is completely true that I saw barely any change the day this was released (apart from it breaking the navbar I customised for a couple of wikis) but I expect users with smaller screens to benefit in the long run for reasons which have been repeatedly pointed out to you, and if you haven't been able to comprehend them so far, then it would be a waste of my valuable time to bother explaining it to you again.

So, you were wondering where the users were who liked this update and who benefited from it? Here's one right here. Here is a person going out of the way to praise an update Wikia has made instead of either slamming it as rubbish with no reasonable solution on offer or ignoring the announcement, as most other people have done. Now, if the situation really is as bad at your wiki that "the current gen can't even render it properly", you now can see where the problems lie and can go fix them, rather than leaving your wiki looking ugly for the 50% and rising of the population who are on screens smaller than your own and who may have been turning away from your wiki already because of how poorly laid out your content already was.

You know what, maybe I do have "much anger", but it's anger at the stupidity of so many people in these comments who can't see the fact that they themselves are the problem when it comes to broken layouts, who constantly belittle anyone who has a screen that is not oversized such as their own, and who claim the lack of praise from satisfied customers as proof that none exist, despite the fact that it is common knowledge that satisfied people are much less likely to voice their opinions than the dissatisfied. All the people that hate change if they can see no direct and immediate benefit to themselves, who claim things along the lines of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" (which I've already responded to here), yet when presented with the problem at hand, don't provide any alternative solution which is actually viable. Quite frankly, it's a wonder I haven't shouted at anybody directly earlier. So maybe I do have "much anger... and for some reason a need to insult desktop users", but it's only because those of whom the anger is directed towards deserve it. And yes, actually, I have seen loads of people insult users of tablets and laptops and tablets in these comments. Maybe they haven't insulted directly, however their dismissive attitude towards such a large portion of their viewing population, saying it is in effect the small-screened user's fault that layouts and tables weren't designed properly is an insult in itself.

I've had enough of dealing with this sort of rubbish for tonight. Don't expect me to reply further.