User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-452-20150521172949/@comment-3236835-20150521193106

Because a user shouldn't have to be forced to change to another type of layout if they don't want to. I prefer Wikia over other wiki services just because I like how it looks and how it's easier to edit, navigate and search for specific info. As you can see, the vast majority of these complains are because all of the sudden, and without any warning, everything got changed, messing with infoboxes and modules throughout most wikis all around the world.

If you check many of the users' profiles posting in this thread, they're people who only have less than five posts here; that means they got affected at their own wikis, searched the web for an explanation and ended up here, where they could make their voices be heard as a last resort. Furthermore, most people are still upset because they're not being heard at all. All we're getting are bug fixes to make Wikia work how it has always been working throughout all these years, and at the same time, they serve as placebos to avoid addressing the huge font size problem.

Look it this way, it should be Wikia's job to make all wikis look good throughout all platforms, but what they did is to slam a vertical oriented layout filled with big letters to our faces so we, desktop users/editors, have an idea how a page looks on a mobile device and have to bother doing work that corresponds to them, all this while these people are sitting flat on their a**es laughing at us.

I, of all people, want all the community in the world to be benefited with this update, but you have to recognize this wasn't the best way to do it, there were hundreds of ways they could still have implemented this without upsetting most of their faithful users.