User:Adys/Wikia

The main problems with the Wikia Monaco skin. I here list the features added by it and the issues they create.

This giant ad sucks. Not only does it often come up with box ads which overlap the content, buttons etc, but for low resolution screens it is just horribly placed. When the wikia merge happened, what users were told was "No major change will happen". Now I understand pretty much no one actually trusted that it'd go that way, but is it a reason to fuck-up the content for all of the readers as well? I don't think so.
 * Leaderboard

Why ffs :/
 * Fugly logo

It is unnecessary. Unnecessarily ugly and annoying. "My page" is a link accessible outside of it. My contributions should be accessible outside of it. Widget management should be in the sidebar.
 * "More" menu

Yeah, it's a nice idea at first - if it wasn't that sidebars suck well enough in general. In all the site designs I create, I add the ability to switch the sidebar to the right or hide it entirely. This is basic accessibility. Bigger sidebars means less content, and today tons of people browse on EEE screens. While about five months ago I'd have said "fuck low resolution", notebooks and phone web browsing changed that radically. Mediawiki's sidebar is acceptable and useful enough, leave it be.
 * Bigger sidebar

Most of them suck. The few ones that are useful can be left smaller to fit Mediawiki's sidebar. Users should be able to disable the entire widget system to instead get non JS-powered boxes.
 * Widgets

They generate slowdowns. Segfaults. General annoyance. If you want to keep them, fine, but FIX THEM. They stay randomly on the screen after the mouse is gone, etc etc. Menus are something extremely simple to code, it cant be that hard to recode them.
 * Menus

Make it an hide/show menu with a + or something alike. Wikipedia's way is best since someone speaking another language might not understand what "Language" stands for. But I'm not that picky on that part since ... Yeah, it's WoW.
 * Languages

Did I mention low resolution screens? They overlap too easily for users. Go back to single float.
 * Tabbar with double float

Why make it bigger? It looks horrible. See my user css for what it should look like.
 * Tabbar in general

Redundant redundancy of redundancy. And what's up with putting Wikia's brand here, why not just WoWWiki? Thanks for the advertising but no, it's QUITE OBVIOUS ENOUGH we are owned by wikia with this skin.
 * Footer -> Improve Wikia by editing this page

Redundant redundancy of redundancy-friendly redundant redundancy. Add bottomtabs if you want that.
 * Footer -> History

who gives a damn?
 * Footer -> Adys made an edit on 14 March 2008

WHO gives a damn?
 * Footer -> Rate this article

WHO GIVES A DAMN?
 * Footer -> Share this article

See Redundancy
 * Footer -> View random page

Should be in the sidebar
 * Footer -> Report a problem

I cant think of anything more right now, will edit if so.