User blog comment:JeskaD/Lifestyle Admins: Prepare your Wiki for the New Look/@comment-1359138-20100930233611

I realize that I'm only one contributor and that ultimately my opinion is not important. Nevertheless, I feel that failing to state some of my difficulties with the "New Look" would amount to lying to Wikia Staff, or ducking responsibility, something something equally deplorable.


 * Articles are now subject to intrusive advertisements for other Wikis - and not in a community friendly way.


 * Articles are also subject to random facts and statistics. If I go to an article, I want to READ the article - not be informed of how many articles there are, how many files there are, and which wikia is in the spotlight at the moment.


 * I also note that advertisement for other Wikis has increased in size.


 * Also, to make room for such extraneous information, the articles are now scrunched - or squished, crushed, mashed, or whatever term for horizontal compression you desire.


 * User pages are similarly compressed - I mean no insult or offense, but please help me understand the compression of our user pages after being informed that "Remember, these new terms only apply to the CSS of the wiki as a whole -- they don’t apply to your personal pages." I simply don't understand.


 * The interactive bar at the top of page is rather excessive, and serves as a directory for Wikis - regardless of their relation to the subject of Wiki. Unless, of course, one can produce an argument that "Healthy Recipes Wiki" is legitimately related to the "Dead Space Wiki".


 * Some signatures, naturally, have been rendered effectively illegible, which I can understand as an unfortunate, but not irreparable difficulty.


 * Regarding articles again - I just found that the statistics boxes overlay any page content that can't be effectively compressed.


 * A minor issue, really, but several templates have been rendered illegible due to the effective "bleaching" of the wikis I frequent; unfortunate, but, again, fixable.

I understand that a significant amount of work went into this, and that the Wikia staff are a good lot. This whole impending change just has me very depressed.