User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-11515627-20150529141749

This large-ass text honestly reminds me of my grandmother's computer. She has everything zoomed in because she can't see as well and it makes using her computer easier, but I'm guessing Wiki'a core demographic isn't +60-year-old women. I just don't see what type of "data" Wikia could have collected that led them to believe large-ass text would be a good idea for their users. It's not. It's obnoxious and screen-room-expensive.

But I get needing a responsive layout. I'm a web designer that started designing before this whole responsive trend took place on the internet, so I was used to the fixed-width wrappers and calling it a day. But making a website responsive doesn't mean you need to completely change the website for normal screen users. Just adapt it for mobile. And really, you can leave large screens alone. I have a large screen and it's very rare you see a website adapted for a larger screen. In fact, most large screens scale to fit anyway, as if it weren't a large screen.

But at the same time I also get updating the UI to be more modern. But modern trends are leaning towards simplicity, white space, etc. Not this bulky, 60-year-old-woman-compatible shit. You should take a page from Wikipedia's book. Look at Vector. It's not modern, but it's not old. It's timeless, has a perfectly comfortable UX, is readable, and above all functional and usable. Wikia is not. It's kind of analogous to that really awkward age between 12-15 where you're just hitting puberty and don't really know how to handle yourselves. Wikia needs to get pass this asap.