Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31293812-20180603011324/@comment-31293812-20180603121412

Tupka217 wrote: This all has been answered already in the other threads, but okay:


 * 1) Monobook does not have ads, so the tracker system is built for the skins that do have them - Oasis, Mercury, Discussions. They'd have to create an entirely new tracking system for Monobook.
 * 2) Not feasible; also, VPNs.
 * 3) It's not "Monobook". It's "Wikia's forked, customized version of Monobook", with "Wikia's forked, customized version of MediaWiki". Mediawiki's Monobook =/= Wikia's Monobook. Adding vanilla Vector would break more things than it would fix. Also, they would still need to create an entirely new ad tracker system for it. It would only increase the workload even more.
 * 4) GDPR requires a dig so deep that that's pretty much what they did. Disable the stuff: just about everything under the surface. At which point the surface is hollow and unsupported.

Wikia has no need for Monobook; they've got their own skins more suited to their demands in terms of ads and portability. It's outdated and doesn't pay for itself. They've had Oasis for close to eight years, and it suits them fine, mostly.

Monobook is not coming back. Vector is not coming. I've heard the term "forked over" used before but what does it mean exactly? Also, how would Vector break things and why wouldn't I.P. tracking be feasble? I'm not doubting you on this I'm just wondering.