Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-20644-20170123193022/@comment-4984687-20170124015851

Brandon Rhea wrote: This wouldn't warrant a full blog post, but&mdash;in addition to wanting to modernize the look of the site when we released the current skin in 2010&mdash;the primary reason is because we're a for-profit website based on ad revenue, and Monobook/Vector can't be monetized in any significant way. That style of theming wasn't designed with ads in mind.

We still offer Monobook as a preference for logged-in users, though, much like we offer a logged-in option for hiding most ads on the site. There certainly are methods of displaying enough ads on Monobook/Vector, perhaps even more, but they wouldn't be as big, intrusive, and flashy as you'd like. You could even make a skin that uses many of the main components of Vector and add the navigation bar from Oasis, but it's quite obvious Wikia is not interested.

Count of Howard wrote: Bruh, you realize you can use an addon like Pseudo-Vector to simulate Vector, yes? Some wikis (like Uncyclopedia) are permitted by Wikia to employ Pseudo-Vector as their default skin. That's the key word here. All wikis should be allowed to set Vector or Monobook as a default, but only some are allowed, and even in Uncyclopedia's case it's just there to parody Wikipedia, without that there would be no point. Wookieepedia recommends all users use Monobook too, but they can't set it as a default. Even if a wiki gains the ability to switch to Vector/Monobook by default, all users (including those without accounts) should have it as a default, and they shouldn't need to sign in to change it either.

It's doubtful Wikia will ever consider anything with Vector/Monobook, they've been trying to focus solely on Oasis for years now. I'm just giving feedback, not trying to start a large argument, so I wouldn't suggest discussing this further in this thread.