User blog comment:Sunshineandravioli/November Newsletter and Admin Post/@comment-2186558-20101114201026/@comment-1874924-20101115004456

Image viewing has been erratic for a couple of days now.

The stated reason for the skin change is that the new, more basic skin can be maintained with a smaller staff. In other words, they're trying to cut payroll costs. If that's true, then good luck trying to get Wikia Central to listen to user complaints, no matter how loud or how many.

Regarding the difficulty in editing pages, I've experience three outages (most recently, last weekend) where affected users can make blog comments but can't do any other type of editing. These outages last a day or two, and don't necessarily affect all users at the same time. These outages appear to be unrelated to the skin change, because two of the three predated the change.