Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-203328-20180607165314/@comment-195370-20180608192128

Sorry, I feel like I'm going round in circles here.

It's not my prerogative, as any person visiting FFXIclopedia from a mobile device is greeted with a mess. The site gets a bad rep across the FFXI community (though mainly directed at Wikia) for being unusable on mobile. It is perfectly usable on a mobile device, just not with Mercury. I can't expect all new users to automatically know to choose to view Full Site and browse with Oasis, which is fine. It would be my prerogative if I could click a switch on my Admin panel that turns Mercury off (in the same way that Monobook was just turned off).

There are a number of reasons the site remains dire under Mercury.

Firstly and foremostly, representing a lot of the more complex systems in a useful fashion to users is just not possible with the design restrictions that Mercury has in place.

Secondly, the site is 50,000 pages and 14 years old. A re-code, even if it were viable or sensible, would take me forever and I have literally no incentive to do so. My part in this thread is trying to explain that it's in FANDOM's best interests to to turn Mercury off for FFXIclopedia, if they want current and future users in the FFXI community not to regard them as a joke.

Thirdly, with the option to view Full Site already present, and being one of the first things that is described in the FANDOM University video on mobile usage, spending any more time on entertaining this is crazy, when the obvious solution is already present.

Would it really take more than ten minutes of a FANDOM staffer's time to remove the Mercury option from FFXIclopedia altogether? Or is it mandatory because of brand policy that takes into consideration the majority of FANDOM sites, but allows no exceptions for the few?