User blog comment:BertH/Layout and navigation updates coming October 3/@comment-4839035-20120921153945

Although the new 'floating' idea is quite cool, in the picture you can see the main reason why Wikia chose this design. I am thinking it is so that Wikia can make GIGANTIC ads about one subject, witch will take up the background and also the side advert. The space is so that there is no seperation between each side of the background, so Wikia can ruin a wiki's background with ads. With AdBlock, or while logged in, I can say this change looks pretty awesome with my wiki's new background (Although that sidebar is still too big). If Wikia kept the ads to the ones at the bottom and maybe a SMALL one at the new space at the top, I would actually be happy about his.

Another problem is that at 100% size, I get horizontal scrollbars and can only see a bit of the page, it would be nice to have an option to set your screen size (but it looks fine on my widescreen laptop :))