User talk:MonacoWasBetter

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Enjoy! -- Brandon Rhea (Talk) 05:37, October 22, 2010

thanks for your comment
You wrote on User:M.mendel/Talk:Your First Look at the New Wikia:
 * Dont be too harsh on me for my newbish skills at editing.
 * 1. On this "user friendly" skin i had NO CLUE where anything was. 2. This is my first time making an account on a wiki EVER, and i did so just to say how much i hated this skin. 3. There's only like 25% of people who like the skin, instead of listening and acting accordingly, they ram it down your throat with the excuse of it being more "modern". I didn't know this was being run by Activision. 4. What happened to the most popular pages, newly changed, etc? 5. Why should it REQUIRE you to make an account to change it back?

I thank you for your comment; it is a bit displaced at the bottom of a page I generated automatically, and would be lost if I ever decide to update it; and then I'm not really responsible for the new skin, I just edit here.

You can add the special pages to "My Tools", it autocompletes, and there's a list. You can also ask your wiki admin to put some of these links into the top navigation. Even so, with the new skin I type in more URLs than I used to.

I didn't think about the new skin forcing people to create accounts; Wikia has encouraged users to do that before, delivering less ads to logged-in users, and I can only surmise that being logged in helps Wikia track your interests and target ads more effectively (which sells better). The size of the "subscriber base" may also help Wikia sell ads. That said, on my own wiki I encourage "anonymous" users who have started to contribute regularly to create an account so the rest of us can interact better with them.

Quite a few wikis have decided to change hosting because they don't like being forced to use the new skin, either. -- ◄mendel► 09:18, October 22, 2010 (UTC)