User blog comment:Susanolivia/Fixed Width, Sidebar, and the Removal of Monaco/@comment-24.97.195.169-20101025192514

One of the biggest issues most users have is with the new fixed width. With higher-res wide-screen monitors being the mainstream nowadays, a width designed for a 1024 pixel wide display seems... antiquated. I didn't buy a 1920 pixel wide monitor to be forced to view all wikis on here crammed into a space about half that width.

But that aside, I guess I still don't understand why the fixed width is really necessary. Perhaps this is a bad example, but take Wikipedia.com for instance. Easily the biggest wiki-style site on the internet with millions of different articles, and they don't "need" a fixed width. I find it difficult to believe that there's "no way" to have a standardized format that isn't fixed-width. I understand how it might make cross-wiki formatting "easier" for the wikia admins, but at the cost of forcing every wikia user to reformat potentially thousands of articles that just mangled? I don't want to sounds like "just another complainer" but come on guys, there HAS to be a better way.