User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Prototype for a new article layout/@comment-4738639-20141229132919

Please don't force this change on us too.

Multiple people have told me that they will stop using Wikia if it looks like that prototype, and they have tried to navigate and looked around the test wikis with struggle too.

The wikis I am on use that "right bar rail" and the font sizing is too big on both the articles and the "local navigation" aka top-navigation.

These changes in addition to the forced global nav bar will definitely drive users away from the wikis as it makes the content harder to read and focus on.

The circles on the left side of the article are a huge distraction. I try to read the articles and all I see are these circles following me.

The font is also very squished as well and it look too much like a mobile version.

When on a computer the majority of people I know don't want mobile version aesthetics which are more cramped and harder to read.

The hover issue from the global nav bar is also apparent in the local "top-navigation" (not sure why terminology from the admin dashboard is being changed) is around. Trying to find a link through the hovering half the time goes right over the navigation and then the hover closes.

Please don't make these changes.

People are buying less computers right now because of Windows 8 because they don't like a mobile OS and aesthetic on their computer because it doesn't work well on a computer.

Please learn from this and stop changing the current aesthetics to mobile style aesthetics.

Or at the very least provide a user option to either have a "mobile view" or not.

Given the option on a computer most people probably won't choose a "mobile view".