User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-452-20150521172949/@comment-3236835-20150521202007


 * Wikia are unlikely to change that unless you come up with a better idea to get wide-screen users to start being more responsible.

It's not my responsibility to "come up with a better idea", that's their job.


 * One unintentional, because Wikia didn't do enough testing.

Then why was this update even released?


 * Why aren't you simply setting your preferences to use Monobook? Monobook has always had the widest content width, and is unaffected by these changes .

Then you're implying each person should change their layout to one which is probably not the most preferred by them.


 * You are not being forced to do anything, you're free to edit your CSS at any time, but people are asking for an option in their preferences, and an wider option already exists.

And that's exactly what (at least in my case) I'll be forced to do, change our CSS, thus reverting everything this update was supposed to bring, either they were benefits or hindrances, and try to make our wiki look and feel the way it always has.

As for the wider option, obviously it has not been satisfactory for most of the people, as you can see.


 * Why didn't they just click the notification in the bottom right corner?

Which notification? You mean that tiny box that very rarely appears at the bottom right of the screen, and which most of the time only has annoncements which a lot (if not, most) people don't even care about, and, due to the large amount of advertisements the web is now cluttered with, has a very big chance of being closed immediately. No, I think there must be a better way to warn everyone when a change as drastic as this one is going to take effect.


 * Look at it this way, it should be the users' job to make sure the content looks good at lower widths, and they have apparently not being doing that. How is Wikia supposed to make a table formatted for 1600px width look good on a 1280px screen?

That's their job not ours. How are they supposed to do it, that's their job, not ours. They're supposed to be people highly trained in designing and coding pages. If a page doesn't look good on a smaller platform, then they could start working for a couple of days in a way pages formatted for wider screens look nice on smaller ones without upsetting the rest of the community.


 * I have to? I suggest you read my other comments if you think that's what I think.

So this update worked out for you, good. But please, don't dismiss about 98% of the rest of the people posting here.