User blog:Benkarnell/On skins

What's up, everyone.

I've been poking around here these last few days. And despite the drama that seems to be all the rage these days, I just might be staying, at least for a while.

But my biggest surprise upon returning is not the new faces or the decline in civility. It's various things that aren't new at all, but which I had never seen before. All because of a change in skin.

See, when I first joined I chose to use Wikia with the Monobook skin. I found it to be cleaner and more attractive and closer to what I was used to on Wikipedia. But unbeknownst to me, Wikia kept adding features throughout my years here. but did not make those featuers visible in Monobook. It was not just that I didn't know, but I had no way of knowing that I didn't know.

Today I literally saw my Admin dashboard for the first time in six years as an admin. I had been wondering how to change the Wiki's features - had looked all over for it, in fact.

This blog post is another feature I never saw before.

Very silly.

So I'm definitely enjoying seeing the Wiki again, for the first time. We'll see if I stick around.

Now if you kids could just tone things down a little.