User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-1519608-20150519165421/@comment-5108618-20150519184343

Hey, LostInRiverview, I answered a similar question a page or so back, but these changes were made for a few reasons. First, we have to consider a much wider range of screen types than existed in the past, and we want content to look good across all of them (the best that we can). Second, there is a reasonable limit to readable line length - once you go beyond a certain point it becomes harder to read an article. We do try to take our users' feedback into consideration, and we made an announcement about this change early in the month and gave people the opportunity to test it out. Yes, our traffic is roughly 50% from mobile, but we want to make sure that the site is accessible for all types of users on all types of displays. In this update, the “desktop” version of the site is being updated with (to quote the blog) “readability and line length that follow modern UX (user experience) best practices”. For us, that means taking multiple devices in account to try and make easy to consume content for both visitors at Wikia and active editors.