User blog:TheSlicer/Some updates

I've been meaning to make this blog for some time, but there's been a lot of things going on for me in the real world, so I hadn't really bothered. Now, though, since school's finally over and I have no homework, it's too hot to go outside, my parents don't want to leave the house and are hogging the TV, and no friends are coming over at the moment, I suppose it's time to turn my attention back to Wikia.

First of all, I'd like to announce a few changes to the MediaWiki interface. Some of these are removals of outdated code that no longer work with the new skin or conflict with other bits of code, but they're mostly changes to the site design that I feel deserve some attention. These include: As you can see, about half of these are for cosmetic effect or bugs, and the other half undo some of the changes that Wikia made. This is partially as a response to the criticism of the new skin, and though I can't make any really big changes, I'd like to hear what you thought about these. Do you think they improve the wiki, or make it worse?
 * Adding an auto-refresh option to recent changes and some other special pages
 * Marking redirects on the wiki page list
 * Resizing the pic on the category bar
 * Removing the image attribution on thumbnail files
 * Trying to fix the USERNAME template
 * Removing the "related pages" area and category galleries
 * Getting rid of talk page links on forum pages
 * Showing large tables normally without having to expand
 * Attempting to fix blog post bug on recent changes

My second announcement regards The Fairon Chronicles. Now that school's over, I will get around to updating it. For real this time. I will also try to work on Nightwatcher's Review Club, so more people can get feedback on their stories (which no one ever seems to read--is it just me, or are fewer people reading others' stories nowdays?).

To conclude this blog post, I will present an MOC I created some time ago but never got around to uploading (inspired by Ids5621's Gahlok):

Yes, I know it's not actually very much like a ball, but it's the closest I could get without compromising the quality of the design. At least I did succeed in making it look like a small Nuhvok... sort of...