User blog comment:Susanolivia/Fixed Width, Sidebar, and the Removal of Monaco/@comment-429401-20101001024745

Thank you Susan for explaining some of the reasoning behind the changes,

But the downside to US - The Community who create the Content that brings in the visitors that drives wikia in the rankings that advertisers look at are not happy about having to rework pages to fit Wikias new corporate look. This takes us away from adding content !!

But the skin is also just part of the issue, as many wikis are not happy about the multitude of other changes as varouse wiggets and features get changed we had disruption with other changes recently, like the RTE messing up templates. The changed galleries were in some ways an improvement but the uploading feature is atrocious as adding image licensing on upload is missing and now you are attributing images publicly to the user who uploaded it. Navigation has got worst for editors with formerly easily accessible tools hidden away (e.g. the customisable toobox should be by check marks not copy and paste to add functions to the list).