User blog comment:CzechOut/How Portable Infoboxes Can Change Your Style/@comment-1142365-20160708232030/@comment-1142365-20160711183559

If you're talking about CSS possibilities on local wikis, why did you make this blog into propaganda about portable infoboxes? Furthermore, if you're talking about CSS possibilities, why does the mobile skin load no custom CSS besides portable infobox CSS? You can't talk about CSS possibilities when the foundation of Portable Infoboxes rests solely on the fact no custom CSS is loaded on mobile.

You are directly misleading users if you are claiming Portable Infoboxes and "CSS possibilities" go hand in hand. Portable Infoboxes rely on the lack of CSS possibilities for local wikis on the mobile skin. I cannot believe you are promoting "CSS possibilities" and using Portable Infoboxes as the vehicle to deliver this promotion. That's painfully ironic, and more importantly, complete deception of Wikia users. Portable Infoboxes are a form of vendor lock in, they inherently minimize possibilities for customisation, especially CSS customisation, not only due to their aforementioned foundation, but also due to the fact that the Portability team does "the heavy lifting", meaning that users are seemingly afforded no say in the "CSS possibilities" until after the changes have been made.

Why is it so hard for you guys on the Portability Team to be honest with your product? Why do you go through these pretty thinly veiled efforts to get users to use your product? As has been raised multiple times by multiple users, myself included, if you cannot sell a product on its own merits ("CSS possibilities" are not a merit of Portable Infoboxes, and as I have mentioned already, it is misleading to suggest that they are) then your product needs to be improved. Portability is a good concept, but the way the Portability team has handled this since its inception has been so shady and underhanded that the name has probably permanently been damaged.