User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-24844472-20150525075654/@comment-2.96.25.13-20150526212548

" Not really. This layout change benefits anyone who wishes for their articles to be relatively consistent at various screen sizes, something fluid failed to do."

I don't think anybody wants articles to be consistent across screen sizes. What they do want is something that looks good and makes good use of their screen.

" Nope. Large (wide more specifically) pages require more work to read. They turn a decent size paragraph into a few lines. Throw in images placed around that text, it wasn't uncommon for them to be piled in a column away from the text they wished to illustrate. Not to mention the amount of dead, pointless white space."

You get more dead, pointless whtie space with this update, as the content is in the center surrounded by white space. The problems you have described don't occur when admins check thier formatting properly. And data tables are much easier to read if more space is available.

" This is a constructive update that gives more respect to mobile users who had to deal with pages designed for large pages by users with large screens. This update's not unreasonable as it's a compromise between the static one size for everyone and fluid's highly variable sizes.

The article width varies so little now (with the font size increase, the width increase on desktop XL is cancelled out) that it is pretty much a static size. It doesn't give more respect to mobile users, it forces editors to give more respect to mobile users. What this skin does is disrespect large desktop users.

" They have accepted it wasn't a great release. That doesn't make the point of it any less valuable and doesn't mean the end result is going to be worthless."

One of the problems actually prevented people from accessing Wikia on mobile phones. That's a critical problem and Wikia should have reverted the change until it was fixed instead of locking mobile editors out for a couple of days.