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:I've been beta-testing the new layout for a while now, and it's pretty good. I will be glad to see many of the Social Tools disappear - the user board can be a big problem since it's not moderated in the same way as the rest of the wiki. However, it's nice for users to have a pre-made profile that updates their information. That said, we can build our own default profile page content easily enough. As for awards/achievements, it's nice to keep a track record, but I'm not sure whether our users value them at all? We don't make a big fuss about them. As Chimpso says, that can cause problems with editing-for-achievements. I wish people would use the preview button more instead of clicking Save 30 times in a row! As for gifts and friends, I think it's only a handful of people who bother. Maybe we can make a better way of doing it (like we do for Userboxes). All in all - I say go ahead, we can think of better ways of doing this if we need to. [[User:Gboyers|Gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 22:17, October 1, 2010 (UTC) | :I've been beta-testing the new layout for a while now, and it's pretty good. I will be glad to see many of the Social Tools disappear - the user board can be a big problem since it's not moderated in the same way as the rest of the wiki. However, it's nice for users to have a pre-made profile that updates their information. That said, we can build our own default profile page content easily enough. As for awards/achievements, it's nice to keep a track record, but I'm not sure whether our users value them at all? We don't make a big fuss about them. As Chimpso says, that can cause problems with editing-for-achievements. I wish people would use the preview button more instead of clicking Save 30 times in a row! As for gifts and friends, I think it's only a handful of people who bother. Maybe we can make a better way of doing it (like we do for Userboxes). All in all - I say go ahead, we can think of better ways of doing this if we need to. [[User:Gboyers|Gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 22:17, October 1, 2010 (UTC) | ||
::To be truthful, I dislike the new look. It's making Wikia look more like a social networking site then a professional wiki organisation. As Grand Theft Wiki is (speaking frankly here) slightly more professional (especially with our templates) then other wikis, this may drop our reputation a little. In addition to this, our site banner will have to go, as it runs on Monaco. We use a lot of infoboxes, the small article content space (600px) and large sidebar means that all the writing is squished and messy, with the infobox looking a lot bigger. Of course it's easy to tweak the userboxes to fit, but on many articles here, some images will have to go, as the article is too cluttered. I was using the new look on the Community Wikia and noticed several clashes between buttons, text and images. '''''[[User:Chimpso|Chimpso]]''''' ([[User Talk:Chimpso|Talk]]) 02:11, October 2, 2010 (UTC) | |||