Board Thread:New Features/@comment-20644-20170522203248/@comment-168424-20170530211658

Browseitall wrote: I hope I do not break the tempo here, but I while I can somewhat understand the CSS limitation (albeit as many mentioned, it is quite questionable for why Fandom seems to yet again remove customization for the various different types of communities) I cannot yet understand their reason to remove the JS extensions, and I'd really like Brandon or someone else to actually response to the comments and thoughts presented here...

About the JS extensions though, I don't want to believe that they are actually having "it's a bad design practice and hinders the user experience." as their sole reason for this. I once broke down my navigation levels to what Fandom would probably want, and visitors came left and right to tell me how much more they benefitted from the detailed navigation we had (Consequently I changed it back, here the nav in question). I do not understand how Fandom just generalizes it and simply declares like that what a bad practice it is. Among the many types of communities Fandom should house, mine most certainly proofed to have a great experience with it, whatever Fandom believes to be right for us. So might it be because of the uniform style across all Wikis that they are recently aiming for? In that case, the extended levels pose a minimum abnormality at most. After all, it doesn't visually alter the webpage at all.

I don't tremendously fret over this, I just don't quite enjoy this lack of communication, as trivial as it might sound for some.

One major problem for Fandom (although they don't seem to want to call it out) is that custom JS can break the VisualEditor which relies heavily on good upstream JS.

As for the argument that deep levels of menu navigation are bad for users... Most of the study on this is not science, but pseudo-science. It usually relies on a particular audience of users and has no control comparison. The variety of users in most commercial web sites is much narrower than the broad variety in wikis. Commercial websites are designed for your grandmother, not your cosplaying cousin who uses a 3D printer to create replica weapons.