Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-679780-20150306170202/@comment-679780-20150424074908

KeybladeSpyMaster wrote: I really like these images/concepts for Monobook. It would look awesome. I think the main problem with Monobook is that since Oasis is what appears by default for anons and other less-active users (thanks a lot, Wikia), most try to make the pages and focus more attention to the Oasis theme. After all, Oasis is basically the face of the wiki, in essence. As an example, over at the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, I've been involved with the updating the theme for pretty much the last two years. The default is Monobook, and as a result, most of the efforts for updating the theme are for Monobook. I often forget to update Vector and Roundedblue, the other two themes installed, because the default is Monobook.

As for Vector, I don't think Wikia would let you use Vector (I understand the only wiki they do that for is Uncyclopedia), though I could be wrong.

In any case, I think the backgrounds are awesome, you should definitely use them. If I may suggest, consider adding a brighter glow around the content box instead of the dark dropshadow, use a smaller image for the background, and maybe add something like a plain color background to the navigation headers so that they're readable. Or a white glow around the black text or something. Thank you! I'm glad there ar ethose who still like MonoBook.

I understand that Oasis has more functions, but MonoBook is less cluttered and no advertisements at all! Perhaps Wikia defaults Oasis in order to profit from it due to advertisements and what not and refer just to forget about MonoBook. I always worry that someday Wiki will just delete MonoBook option from all of it's wikis someday.

And while I cannot take credit for SNNs default apperance on MonoBook, I am the one that changes the colours and make the required images for holiday use.

For example April first was suppose to be the day Dr. Eggman took control of our site as a joke. Thing is though no one really noticed much of a difference other than changes on the front page. Meanwhile I had MonoBook dished out perfectly for the occasion! It was coloured right, the header image was replaced right, everything on MonoBook was perfect.

But no one damn noticed since the majority had MonoBook! Because the Oasis skin executions failed, I felt my MonoBook preperations were ignored.