Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-22224-20180521161500/@comment-679780-20180522194517

Tupka217 wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote: Granted perhaps a quarter or so users prefer MonoBook (I dunno the wiki databases to check) but it still a popular skin for some that Wikia kept since it's roots.

You're overselling it. Last figures (admittedly from 2015) were more like one percent or less. The number of wikis that use Monobook as a standard is about 15 (no percentage), I think mostly Uncyclopedia variants. From a purely business standpoint, they'd lose money if they had to allocate hours to reactivate support and then update the BTS stuff, and then continue support. It would suck away resources for minimal to no gain.

They dropped support ages ago, it was inevitable that they'd drop the whole thing eventually. Could've used an earlier warning, but it's water under the bridge now. I don't mean to oversell it, I was aware MonoBook users are the minority, though suprised less than I figured.

But I still don't understand why MonoBook can't be twiddled to be compliance with this GDPR bullcrud? They don't have to make MonoBook covered in adverts or all the bells and whistles that Oasis have, just make it acceptable for GDPR.

Deadcoder wrote: Mystic Monkey, the policy has an extremely short time to come into compliance. Staff simply didn't have enough time to make both desktop skins compliant. Monobook was actually scheduled to die later this year. Given that there wasn't enough time to update a skin they don't make money off of, Staff simply decided to sunset it. I'm sad Monobook is dying, but I can understand why it happened.

In summary, they couldn't fix it because there wasn't enough time to fix something that was going to be deleted anyway. It is extremely, unfairly short. I know MonoBook is old and dated but I figured Wikia found it harmless to stay. The only "damage" I see it doing to FANDOMs interest is that 200 so people are not putting up with as much adverts with the other million users. If people want to live in the stone age, let them, it's nice to know those people can join the modern age when they feel ready.

If it has something to do with coding is it really too much for FANDOM to have one guy just twiddle MonoBooks skin coding to be acceptable to GDPR and leave it at that?