User blog comment:Rammingspeed/Wikia's new look/@comment-1534328-20101025215933

TG, to quote them:

'Why is it mandatory?

The main reason for requiring everyone to move to the new look is that it’s simply not practical or economical for us to maintain and develop features for multiple skins. As we create new features, or update existing ones, we will only be doing so for the new look and Monaco will be left behind. This will especially be an issue when we upgrade to Mediawiki 1.16. This upgrade will involve checking each feature against the new code, and we don’t have the capacity to do that twice!

We recognize that some people would rather use the unsupported version of Monaco, but one of our biggest goals is to provide a consistent, high quality experience for all users, and we believe having everyone on the new look is the right way to do this. '

I believe it is utter rubbish - and so do thousands of protestors, but Wikia have turned a blind eye to all.