User blog comment:BertH/Layout and navigation updates coming October 3/@comment-1411998-20121004082813/@comment-30099-20121004084731

...they don't care about Monobook anymore. I sometimes suspect that they like to break it even further to try and force people to move to their Wikia skin.

I'm trying more and more workarounds for main-page column use in Monobook. I still refuse to use to the Wikia skin and encourage all of our wiki's users to use Monobook, even as broken as it is now. Half-functioning Monobook is still preferable to "fully"-functioning Wikia skin.