Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-24111404-20150424213130/@comment-3547390-20150519152301

Indeed! Why does it seem like every update these days tends to make things worse? Am I getting old and set in my ways? I heavily supported Windows 7 and loved it more than XP. Why can't I support Windows 8?

Why does the previous look of the Wikia look so much better than what we have right now? My profile picture still has a tacky white line around it, notifications feel harder to select, the search doesn't give as good results as it did before, and the other buttons are pointless to me. The red buttons still cause spacing issues, though that is pretty ignorable when the entire thing is messed up due to ridiculously large text.

The best thing about this release is the Insights tab. At least it is easier to access broken stuff now. Of course, nobody cares about that stuff anyway, especially as it all goes against wikia's logic of more text is bad. Still, it is nice not to have to use the dashboard to get to some of these lesser things. Of course, the things I cared about don't exist, like Double Redirects and links to Disambig pages.

EDIT: To counteract the compression, I gave the pages the ability to take up more space on the screen. Where before there was just background, now the page can start on the extreme left.

It seems beneficial to set it up this way as it fixes some of the alignment problems that Wikia created. Compare the Main Page in my picture above to the current state. The buttons are now aligned properly and the News is not conflicting with another header. We still have the size issue, which is why I recommend trying to view the pages at around 80 or 90 percent. The talk pages tend to look too large for me at 90, but the articles seem to be properly scaled. According to Wikia, the talk pages were made with too large of a font and they will be cutting back. In any event, the biggest problems (the scaling and compression) are removed with this edit. We still have the problem also of headers being rather ugly (if you haven't noticed, the size 2 and size 3 headers look nearly similar now, the latter just doesn't have an underline, which can make some pages such as Walkthrough pages look a little awkward in its current state). I think Header 3 would need to be replaced with Header 4, it seems to look more like the previous Header 3 (Header 4 originally looked like the text below and so was virtually useless). The Main Page could still use a small amount of fixing, the Recent Activity could be made smaller while the elements on the right side could be made larger (we have a small gap right now).

So... how do you guys feel about the change? Don't worry about the background currently, I know we would need a new one if we were to go with this style permanently. I just am curious if the fixes are good or not (unlike Wikia, I take feedback!) before I proceed with Operation Fix Up. So, basically, before I do all the changes I mentioned above I want to make sure that the full-screen like view is good with everyone (Due to Raadec being absent, as far as I can see, that leaves Emerald and Vork).