Forum:Wikia Skin Colors

Well, it looks like my attempt to bring back the old skin failed, and I don't know how to bring it back. As I said on my edit comment for that one root CSS page, I accidentally overrode this wiki's skin display settings when I changed something completely unrelated on my account's preferences. Apparently, the skin that this wiki used by default, "Monaco Slate", has been removed from the list of possible skin choices, and I found out that it is now considered to be a "legacy" skin that is no longer supported by Wikia Central (due to all the crap that they keep adding into the site that makes older skins unable to make use of them, PRECISELY why I still use the also-not-supported default MediaWiki "Monobook" skin whenever possible, and I hate Wikipedia to death now that they decided to screw with their default skin too).

I attempted to bring back the old skin by copying some code from Wikia Central's support fork, but it turns out that it had no effect even after purging the cache for both the server and my own browser, and I don't want to bother troubleshooting through it this late into the morning. I will send out a support request to try to get our skin back to the way it was, but perhaps we could take this opportunity to "update" the skin by selecting one of the currently available choices. All of you registered users can go into your preference settings to preview each of the available skins, and if you think any of them will look better than the old skin, please leave a comment below. If no one has any preferences, I'll try to get our old skin back, but I can't make any guarantees.

To be honest, I hate all of the skin themes, even the old Slate skin, so all of you are free to pick whatever skin you want. Monobook is not an option since it's almost completely incompatible with Wikia's unique features, but I will continue to use it for myself for that very same reason.

Byakuren Hijiri (talk) 06:26, May 16, 2010 (UTC)