Fandom's Oasis skin will be retired next week

[Antvasima]

Hello.

This is just a note that next week Fandom's Oasis layout skin is being retired:

Retirement of legacy designs

community.fandom.com

?useskin=oasis will remain as a URL parameter for testing for a couple of weeks after that, but after that the skin will be gone forever.

Edit:

You can read further information here:

The Future of Fandom

Welcome to the future of Fandom. By now, you’ve probably noticed that we have a new logo and new colors in our global navigation bar, along with a new color for the footer at the bottom of every page. As of August 3, 2021, with the FandomDesktop rollout nearly complete and the completion of...

community.fandom.com

 

[ZoroNotZolo]

That was the one before the current one, right?

 

[KingTempest]

NO WAY

 

[Antvasima]

That was the one before the current one, right?

Yes. Some of our members have continued to use it by changing their wiki settings, but that will not be possible soon.

 

[Theglassman12]

This is beyond stupid, why are they nuking it?

 

[FinePoint]

Why!?

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

This is most unfortunate, but is what it is.

 

[Emirp sumitpo]

Why kind of an L IMO. But it is what it is

 

[ZoroNotZolo]

RIP

 

[HammerStrikes219]

How unfortunate as I am more used to the old format of Fandom than the new format of Fandom. My stances after the new format's implementation remains unchanged in terms of being neutral.

I will not deny the new one has flaws, but the old one also has flaws (not glaring ones fortunately since I assume it is minor at least). I am curious on what the new skin will been and hopefully retain some if not all of the old one.

 

[Coolboy6]

RIP. You had a good run Oasis skin

 

[Nullflowerblush]

I'm not very fond of this new skin at all, but hey, at least it's been improved since its initial beta rollout.
I'd rather have this than nothing. I will miss Oasis though.

 

[Valiant_Abyss]

Ew.

 

[Soldier_Blue]

This is most unfortunate, but is what it is.

Yeah. They've made a lot of stupid changes in the past, but I feel like this one we can move on from without too much mental stress.

 

[Antvasima]

Well, at least I think that we have made all of the required adjustments in preparation for the change.

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

Yeah, while constructive criticism is fine, going on full on rants should probably be kept to a minimum; at least publicly. I too am not satisfied with how fast or out of the blue the decide to make their changes, but it's not like it's going to destroy the platform outright or anything.

 

[Antvasima]

Yes, and I and other council members did manage to get Fandom to fix the problems with displaying image galleries, which was the main issue.

 

[Milly_Rocking_Bandit]

This new skin is genuinely awful, though.

 

[Antvasima]

Well, it has a dark mode and you can adjust the page widths. Also, given that the image galleries have been fixed, and we applied the same colours as previously, not that much else has changed. The tabbers do not look as good anymore of course, but the new format is not particularly bad in that regard.

 

[Milly_Rocking_Bandit]

Dark mode is a very good trade off. I’ll give it a chance. How dark? Midnight? Or just like this?

 

[Antvasima]

We tried to make the wiki's dark mode very similar to this forum's dark mode.

 

[Milly_Rocking_Bandit]

Can it be darker? Maybe it’s just me, but I like ventablack dark.

 

[Antvasima]

We think that the current theme is dark enough.

 

[Milly_Rocking_Bandit]

Fair enough, I guess.

 

[KLOL506]

My only gripe with it really is that the search bar isn't on top like in Oasis

 

[SamanPatou]

And now the top bar is yellow, ugh, it hurts my eyes.

 

[Milly_Rocking_Bandit]

Like I said, dark mode helps with unappealing colors.

 

[Antvasima]

My only gripe with it really is that the search bar isn't on top like in Oasis

I share the same viewpoint.

 

[FoxySonicMaster108]

I don’t mind FandomDesktop that much, but that yellow header looks pretty bad.

As for Oasis, I’m really gonna miss it, makes me really wish I was on this wiki sooner.

 

[Antvasima]

Here is a new page with further information:

The Future of Fandom

Welcome to the future of Fandom. By now, you’ve probably noticed that we have a new logo and new colors in our global navigation bar, along with a new color for the footer at the bottom of every page. As of August 3, 2021, with the FandomDesktop rollout nearly complete and the completion of...

community.fandom.com

As it says, there will be a new Community Connect event this weekend to which I have been invited, although given that each of the sessions will be 5 hours long, I only have the time to attend on Sunday, and barely that.

Are there any useful questions that you would like me to ask? However, I cannot promise that I will find them appropriate, that I will get the opportunity to ask them, or that I will remember the answers well though, given for how long I will have to try to focus.

 

[SamanPatou]

I'd like to ask if it will be possible to open slideshow galleries by cliking on them, just like normal galleries.

 

[Antvasima]

What do you mean?

 

[SamanPatou]

When you click on a common gallery, a window/box opens and you can scroll the images in the gallery, with them being bigger, having the name of the file visible and else (idk if I'm describing it properly).

Basically it would be nice if you could to the same with slideshows.

 

[Lollipop_The_King]

Why is every update consistently worse?

 

[Antvasima]

When you click on a common gallery, a window/box opens and you can scroll the images in the gallery, with them being bigger, having the name of the file visible and else (idk if I'm describing it properly).

Basically it would be nice if you could to the same with slideshows.

That seems more like the kind of questions that should be asked to Kirkburn via a Zendesk email than during the Community Connect. I can ask him if you wish though.

Why is every update consistently worse?

Well, the main good parts about the UCX update are that it is possible to select a dark mode or greater screen width for those who wish, and the bad parts that the Fandom navigation bar takes up room to the left, which messes up our previous formatting for header images in character profile pages. However, the Fandom staff want the navigation bar to be more visible/impossible to miss, so visitors also interact with other wikis and news articles after they have stumbled over a single article via a Google search.

 

[Theglassman12]

If they want it visible then have navigation bar on top. Having it at the side is so jank compared to how it is previously

 

[Antvasima]

Yes, I also think that it interferes with the page layouts, but they think that it will bring greater attention to Fandom as a platform from casual article visitors.

 

[FinePoint]

I think all it really does is present a less user-friendly interface that will turn people away.
Navigation bars at the top of pages is the standard for a reason.

 

[Antvasima]

Yes, but they have made their decision. Everything else is mostly fine except for that part in my opinion.

 

[Antvasima]

I have now asked them about if they would be willing to move back the navigation bar to the top of the screen if their experiment to make visitors interact more with the site at large does not work out.