The new Oasis skin for Wikia is Wikia's way of trying to become the next Facebook. Seriously, it looks a lot like Facebook. Also, it discourages the editors from making long articles to save on database space. Keeping the text area fixed to only 660 pixels wide (subtracting six does nothing to hide your evil ways!) means less horizontal space, which means space gets pushed vertically. Then they're adding a horizontal bar on the bottom to help eat some of that up. Vertical space is the precious stuff and people hate scrolling, so articles are going to get shorter and shorter until the term "stub" has to be redefined. At the same time, they're adding a large sidebar next to the actual page and will be filling it with junk. They're trying to take the focus away from the articles and put it on all the stuff they'll have in there. Sooner or later, it's going to be filled with apps. Then nobody is going to care about the articles, since there's jack shit in them anyway. Oh, and it's on the right. That means that reading articles is going to naturally lead your gaze to it.
Once they have the importance of articles killed, they'll introduce a proper profile system. Users' pages will be converted to it and their freedom to customize their info will be limited. They'll be nice though, and have more room than the articles.
It all will lead to the articles losing their importance and profiles becoming the main attraction. The articles will still be there, but the people who edit them will be the fringe minority.
Soon enough, it'll be just another successful social site.
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Originally Posted by Drake Clawfang
Aerith is clearly the most badass character ever. She saves the world. Twice. While dead. No one else can claim that, can they?
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I'm gone from here for good. This place gave me many memories to take with me and shaped me greatly. I still care about you guys. I just can't stay.
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