Forum:SH Archive/Wikia's ideas...

Hello, fellow Wookieepedians, as you probably know, Wikia is launching a new skin sometime soon. Yesterday, a new blog entry appeared on the Wikia staff blog in Community Central, which contained a schedule about the skin. I didn't really caer about it, as I use Monobook, but then I saw something horrifying. "Update to Wikia's Terms of Use." Wikia decided that having css/js that prevents core features from appearing is forbidden. Also, as far as I know, every Wikia wiki will have blogs, article comments and achievements enabled. What are we going to do? We do have a Site feature policy, but I doubt that Wikia will care. So, what are we going to do? God help us. 1358 (Talk) 12:31, September 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * We go on strike :P QuiGonJinn  Senate seal.svg(Talk) 13:23, September 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * I can't see anyway around it. Disabling the new features is allowed in personal user js/css files, apparently. Just make it a policy (put it in the welcome message! :P) that people create and use those. Technically it's not breaking the Terms of Use... :P NAYA   YEN   13:26, September 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't really mind the CSS/JS stuff, but the blogs and the achievements are inevitable&hellip; 1358  (Talk) 13:29, September 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * Then how do we not see the blogs and achievements now? Is there a sysop-accessible menu that has these features turned off server side? The new TOU will now mean that there will be no option to turn those off then? NAYA   YEN   13:35, September 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * Those have not yet been enabled as far as I know. And no, if I have understood this thing correctly, sysops won't be able to turn off blogs and stuff. :( 1358  (Talk) 13:38, September 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * If that's the case, and if it's really that big of a concern, couldn't we just make a site policy to not let anyone use them? Jonjedigrandmaster  ( Talk ) 13:41, September 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * That is a possible solution, but I'm not sure Wikia will allow it. They don't care about our Site feature policy. 1358  (Talk) 13:43, September 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * I know they don't care. What I'm asking is: couldn't we just tell all of our users to not use the blogs etc. at all; and make it a blockable offense if need be? Jonjedigrandmaster  ( Talk ) 13:50, September 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * A note of that would have to go in the welcome message as well. Could we also change the color of the links in the tabs (white link on white bg, for example) so that you have to know where to look for them? NAYA   YEN   13:59, September 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * And so begins the search for new hosting... Xicer9 atgar.svg( Combadge) 13:42, September 29, 2010 (UTC)