User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Prototype for a new article layout/@comment-5785681-20150118210531/@comment-11733175-20150118233921

I look at the designs and see them as a reflection of the current trends of web design. The round avatar icons are exactly the same in skype, the considerable larger text is very common on all-the-rage websites. However, none of these websites that I see these changes on are wikis, many don't even contain anything resembling documentation. I wonder if what these designs represent is an influx of web designers from other companies who have done similar makeovers and tried to apply them to wikis with little consideration for how suitable said trends are for the type of content Wikia hosts. I don't think these ideas are "half-baked", they work really well on many websites, but they are badly applied.