User blog comment:Susanolivia/Experience the new Wikia/@comment-1411998-20100927071445/@comment-1454424-20100927075829

Wikia is pretty much taking advantage of the fact that there aren't too many wiki farms out there that their users can migrate too. That maybe to true but that doesn't mean users won't abandon their wikis. Wikia is also probably expecting that even if the current users leave, others will take over. However, there are many dead and abandoned wikis on Wikia and Wikia shouldn't assume that the vast majority of their wiki that are currently active and vibrant will survive them jamming this down our throat.

That's exactly what they are doing. They have made it clear from their responses that they aren't going to listen to the most pressing of issues: content space, because some study that they did tells them that the dimensions are just "perfect", even though their own example wikis should be ample evidence that it is not.

But whatever, if Wikia wants to pretend that this is a beta and not mere a preview for their sleek new look that none of us can do anything to change, more power to them. All I know is that the wiki I contribute the most to, Bleach Wiki, is going to look shit as a result and with 1226 articles, it won't be an easy, pleasant and certainly not a rewarding task to downscale content and make articles less useful just to restore some semblance of readability under the new look.