User blog comment:Yyp/New Wikia Skin:What we can expect?/@comment-1690831-20100926161412

I'm sorry I really wanted to say something good about this look but I can't, I mean I'm seriously convinced that Tosen was the one that designed this new look. I was immediately turned off the second I went on it and I guarantee that if this look was how it normally was then I wouldn't have even bothered contributing to this wiki in the first place (no that doesn't mean I'm going to stop contributing now). There's too many reasons to list why this is so bad but I'll still try.

First off, what they did with the sidebar was just terrible. It's way too big and distracts from the content of the article. No that's a bit of a lie, it outright RUINS it. It makes the content feel way too cramped and hard to read. I mean, anyone who looks at this crap is going to leave the wiki in a second. Seriously, just read Salubri's complaints on how the size of this completely ruins the content because he put it better than I could have ever hoped to. Aside from all that, the content on the sidebar is just pointless like who contributed what article last and a picture section, which was put there because umm.... yeah I got nothing.

Also, can someone tell me how putting users names under a pictures caption is a good idea because I'm stumped right now. They serve no purpose, and I mean NO PURPOSE, whatsoever. Unless of course its purpose was to distract from the articles even further because if that's the case then bravo they couldn't have done a better job.

Next thing on the list, the user who last edited the article has their name put at the top of the page. Honestly, while this is stupid, it's not the worst thing in the world and I can actually see people wanting to edit just so they can have their name on the top. Of course, this can be seen as both good and bad, as it could just lead to more vandalism, or it could lead to more useful edits. Overall, not the worst thing, though I would still prefer it not be there.

Now then, categories being put on top of the page. Once again, stupid, but not the worst thing in the world. Yeah it may be a problem if there's a lot of categories on a page (like what we happen to have) but there's still worse things that could be done with it. Not denying it's stupidity, but there's a lot worse things to complain about like...

That annoying black box on the bottom of the page. It's really distracting and it's the first thing I noticed when going on the new look. Sure, I can eventually get used to it, but I shouldn't have to get used to it in the first place. It's just another one of those things that was put there with the sole purpose of distracting from the content on the article.

So yeah, this new look is just terrible, and I really hope it doesn't completely destroy the articles as it appears that's what's going to happen.