User blog:C.Syde65/Technical Update: 28 September, 2016

{|width="100%" {|style="background: white; border: 3px solid navy; -moz-border-radius: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px; font-size:95%; width: 95%" align="center" It's been a little while since I wrote a community blog, but here it is. The latest technical update blog. Two major changes that I believe need announcing. The former of the two has been around for a few days, while the latter of the two just took effect last night (my last night).
 * colspan="2" align="center"| Technical Update: 28 September, 2016

Recently, I asked Wikia Staff to enable the new discussions feature, so that myself and others can get the feel of using them. This is important, given that this feature will eventually be replacing the new forums not only on this wiki, but on all wikis that use the new forums instead of the old forums.

As with all wikis, at C.Syde's Wiki here, we unfortunately have no control over this transition from new forums to discussions. So in the mean time, it's best that we try to get the feel of them before we have no choice but to use them. This may come as a huge disappointment to those who enjoy using the new forums. I myself was quite disappointed when I first found this out.

But rather than to disown abandon Wikia altogether, there's really nothing we can do but accept the situation when it happens. And I think that we can manage just fine. I will manage just fine in any case, since I know it could be a lot worse, and Wikia is still the best network host for C.Syde's Wiki. And I don't think that it will come to any of us simply leaving because of the discussions.

The other big change is that last night - when it was last night for me - Wikia made some changes to the design of their navbar, you know the white navbar seen at the top of every page on Wikia. Well, quite soon Wikia will no longer be officially addressed as Wikia. Instead they will be addressed as Fandom. This may come across as absurd to some, but unfortunately we have no control over this change. But considering that C.Syde's Wiki is very well established, the new name for Wikia won't be having much of an effect on C.Syde's Wiki anytime soon, if at all.

The most we can do is to try and revive what we can remember of the old Wikia design, through our personal CSS pages. But anyway, I'm sure that us users here on C.Syde's Wiki, and on all Wikia wikis will find a way to get around these changes. Best of luck for the future here at C.Syde's Wiki. ― C.Syde  ( talk  |  contribs ) 22:26, September 27, 2016 (UTC)