User blog:Sidorak12814/NEW SKIN RANT

Wikia's had it coming. I'm going to blast any Wikia officials who might care in the slightest about my opinion with a radical anti-new skin rant.

I don't rant that often, but once in a while I find it appropriate.

LIKE WHEN WIKIA FORCES YOU TO USE THE MYSPACE SKIN!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHH!!!
I really dislike the MySpace skin.

It, first, of all, looks way too much like MySpace. If we want our Web experience to look like MySpace, we'll go to MySpace, thank you very much.

Second, it crams all the articles into a 1,000-pixel stripe across the screen, of course, only when there aren't "New Blog" and "Recent Images" widgets clogging up the space instead. Seriously. We can simply look up recent images if we want to, and, I don't know about you, but, aside from Unreleased Images-type stuff, I often REALLY DON'T CARE which images were recently uploaded. I only care if an article has enough images, not when they were uploaded. The Article Stripe also ruins the usage of info boxes and the like, ruining many classic Wiki-like aspects of the site. Also, thumbnails all look sloppy on the Article Stripe, smashing the text into an even narrower bit of screen. The stripe also just looks like it has way too much wasted space on either side, especially on a widescreen computer like mine.

Third, the skin has no horizontal lines. These are nice when trying to separate parts of an article, and it looks way too much like one giant glob of text without the lines. They can be overused, but, used well, the lines look just fine. Without them, it looks way too much like MySpace.

Fourth, the update removes many of Wikia's other features. I don't know about you but I hate having to get rid of the template parameters every time I make a new page. So, naturally, I turned them off a few months ago. The update removed that feature, forcing me to have to delete the parameters again. Also, I almost never use RichText, so I made Wikitext the default for my editing, but, again, the update removed that option.

Fifth, there's just WAY TOO MUCH emphasis on the social aspect of Wikia in relation to the actual article-editing. There's random blog, image, and other-wiki-ad widgets everywhere cluttering up the page. THAT'S WHY I HAVE AD BLOCKER TURNED ON ON MY BROWSER. I HATE RANDOM ADS.

Sixth, and last, I hate how we are now forced to use the new skin. I changed my options back to Monacao while I could, but, alas, that's another option they removed.

To ther users who agree with me: Say goodbye to the old Wikia. Say goodbye to it like an old friend that you will never see again. And take any further "upgrades" to Wikia with a grain of salt.

That is all.