User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Prototype for a new article layout/@comment-28835099-20141212185612

Okay hey, so I'mma start out with what I don't like and what I do like, I guess I'll put a "Positive" or a "Negative" by each bullet:


 * Not So Sure: The local navigation bar in my opinion is awful, the fact that it drops down to show us on site content is painful. this makes me not want to use it on my iPad as I already have trouble getting drop down stuff to work. Other than that, I enjoy the new local navigation, especially on my computer, I just wish that the quirky grey lines could be removed from in-between each "tab"
 * Not So Sure: The New Section for "Items of Content" Is extremely out of the way, it would take some getting used to that positioning in order to get used to it. I however much rather enjoy using the TOC to quickly jump from place to place on the page. However the fact that it is always present is nice.
 * Negative: Chat is no longer on the side rail on wiki pages, I really don't like that as I feel like most people enter the wiki chat from either the Wiki Activity page, or from content pages on the wiki.
 * I feel like if chat is not added back to at least content pages on the right side, then it should at least get a bubble on the left, so that it can be easily reached from any page. I feel like this would make chat more accessible and would allow for people to get to chat from any point on the page.
 * Thoughtful: I feel like the dots on the left, should be able to be clicked so that users on the iPad can use them efficiently.
 * Thoughtful: The My tools section, I almost never used that in the past, unless it was to get to the "User Rights Management" page quickly, but that was about it, so I hope that's still an option in customization when this is rolled out to all of wikia.
 * Not So Sure: I'm not sure whether or not I enjoy the fact that the edit button has been moved. It's certainly out of the way, but it's nice that it's not crowding the title of the page.
 * Thoughtful: If we're going to give the edit links in the  headers, please make it so that they can be easily customized via CSS.
 * Negative: In my opinion putting the must watch videos and adds in the middle of the page's content would make me want to stop reading, and would drag me away from what I was trying to accomplish, whether it was researching a certain subject, item or hurting for an answer to a question. If it didn't distract me, it would aggravate me that it's in the middle of the page, but I realize this as a "necessary" change, I've seen "necessary" changes before in wikia.
 * Extreme Negative: At times all of the share links show up as bubbles beneath the gears/tools bubble. That's aggravating because they disappear randomly instead of being loaded properly when the page is loaded.
 * Thoughtful: I feel like it would be more important to readers on a wiki, if two of the advertisements were to other pages on the wiki they're currently reading on, and if only one was of something else. Otherwise many wiki's will start to lose editing activity because of users constantly reading.
 * Thoughtful: I feel like templates aren't going to look as good, or will look out of place in this new design, I haven't seen many templates on the disney wiki, or on the American Horror Story Wiki. I dread that wikias such as Pokémon which uses a majority of templates along with text, that the templates will feel off in the new style of page layout.
 * Insanity: Currently the fact that the Heading text does not have the same bottom border as the "(pencil) EDIT" is driving me insane, I would be changing it on every wiki so that the heading text is at the same "level" as the "(pencil) EDIT" text.

So far, these are all my thoughts, If I think of more, I'll attempt to get them all organized into a blog of sorts.