User blog:Belle pullman/FandomDesktop Opt-In - Please Read!

Hi Everyone!

So, fandom.com, our merciful, benevolent overlords, are in the process of updating the software that runs this wiki. The latest release is the "Fandomdesktop" skin - at first, for now this is an opt-in option but in the future it will be rolled out as the only option for viewing this wiki. Therefore, it is strongly in our favour to use it as soon as possible, as it changes a lot.

We're going to have to edit every single "gallery" tag on the site to get them to display in a manner that is visually - usable, let alone "pleasing". It seems likely every "table" tag will also need attention. See the Sandbox page for some of my experiments - once you have switched, as the new tags make no difference to the old skins. In the meantime, please refrain from changing the "Gallery" tags (adding "widths" info) as it's pointless, it's all going to change again.

The new skin brings "Light" and "Dark" modes - obviously "Dark" mode is more akin to what we are used to here, but a "light" mode will also need configuring. As it stands right now (2nd June) the appearance was obviously tailored for a "Light" mode as I'm seeing white text on white backgrounds, but they are actively fixing bugs like that. But we will need to customise the setting to suit our wiki.

There's sure to be a lot more issues and possibilities to improve the wiki with this new software, so please get on board with exploring "Fandomdesktop", report back with problems, come up with new ideas, let's work together and sort out this mess! As I said there's bug fixes and patches coming along, so we're better off designing improvements rather than compensating for bugs.

See here - Fandom Staff Blog Page - for all the updates. I'm not the most technically minded so I can keep up with most, but not all, of the discussion - please take a few mins to catch yourself up too!

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