User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: September 28, 2016/@comment-244709-20160929041434

Haha, this is my first time seeing the updated Community Page. No idea you guys were using my community as an example. :P

And on that note (from the comment thread below), sorry for the custom CSS that makes some elements in the example image look weird. I did make some minor adjustments in pushing the top header image down a bit to even out the spacing on top (because we have a differently sized wiki navigation header image), and then adding a bottom bar to it. I also made appropriate changes to the size of the shade box, but it doesn't seem to work in this version. Guess I'll have to fix all that and more tomorrow...

This new layout's not that bad, but it's not as consistent with wiki design as the current one is. Particularly on mine, I had made it so the right column sections matched the styling of the right rail modules on our Wiki Activity page. This layout doesn't seem to use the same elements, so getting it to match (or at least make it not look too outstand-ish, especially now that my wiki has a custom background image) may be difficult. I guess I'll see tomorrow after the release.

I'm also still interested in maybe one day being able to edit more than just the top header message? I understand you guys want some consistency across all wikis and to get a particular message across to everyone who reads the page's content, but some of the titles you've selected for some of the page's elements could be simplified. Like 'Recent New Contributors' could just simply be 'New Editors', 'Top Contributors This Week' could be 'This Week in Editing' (thus slightly removing some of that "competition" aspect that I still despise about it), and so forth. Perhaps it's just the language of my particular community, but I do like referring to users as actual editors than just "contributors". Not to say that all who "contribute" something are "editing" something necessarily, but you get the idea. It's just something unique that I'd like to have a little more control over.