User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-2019881-20100823024644/@comment-473563-20100824193912

The experienced users are those you can thank for the sustained expansion of "sticky" content that has successfully attracted the newer users to wikia. Some of those experienced users (not me) have suffered the painful transition away from the much loved monobook skin to the "Wikia-home-grown" Quartz-come-Monaco skin and the subsequent transition from Monaco to New-Monaco which most wikia-hosted wikis have been forced to use today and now simply call it "Monaco".

So the frustration you are seeing vented here is over yet another iteration of this bait and switch dance.


 * Fool me once - shame on you.
 * Fool me twice - shame on me!

Judging by the numerous threats of relocating wikis there is most definitely a market for free (or even ad-supported) wiki-hosting where the commitment is for long term support of a well understood and well documented skin - whether that skin is monobook or Monaco.

Personally I'd be happy to revert to monobook since that is what out-of-the box MediaWiki software offers.

Hope that helps you understand the frustration you are reading about here.