Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-28716546-20170604073925/@comment-5456782-20170613163232

[http://community.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Brandon_Rhea/New_Page_and_Article_Headers:_Official_Release_Date Here's an official link to the blog post, if anybody wants one. ]

They also released this, which explains their reasoning.

So naturally, being composed of 70% water and 30% salt, I'm going to complain about all of this in a massive bulleted list.

I could write way more but I'm kinda burned out. Wikia, what the absolute hell are you thinking?
 * They're not changing it back. They had it tested by the sycophants over on Community who 'loved' it.
 * They don't want it to be modifiable by CSS or JS. They want Wikias to look as uniform in design as possible.
 * This means that the Doctor Who wiki's got reverted as well.
 * They state that a big pro to the new design is that a shortcut to the admin dashboard is up there, but... The admin dashboard shortcut is usually in the footer, which seems very neglected.
 * You can now see categories on the top of the page, to test to see how it looks. Naturally, this fails with everything that has more than five categories.
 * They didn't even test to see if ads and the header interfere, which they do. Love the forethought exhibited by Wikia.
 * They want to "Keep It Simple and Straightforward". Haha, okay. If you wanted to do that, you could have just made it easier to change and edit the old one. Besides, I'm 90% sure they don't understand why simplicity works.
 * They did their own research, which I think we all know what that means. They searched through Google, found articles that agreed with them, and flaunted how correct they were. I mean, that's how I write all of my school papers, anyway.
 * "Too much choice is a bad thing". Oh, no, they're not referring to the admins who edit and design the wiki header here. They're more concerned with people who stop by your wiki, take a look at the header, and leave because they can't decide what button to press. Yeah, sure. I definitely believe that happens.
 * That being said, that really shows what Wikia thinks of their userbase. They must think we all take one look at things and think "Damn. That's too complex for me." and leave.