> Sadly it was difficult to > distinguish whether this was simply a dislike of the new fonts or > something deeper related to a bug.
Since, you're changing something primarily for aesthetic purposes (I think anyways, all the accounts of why we even would want to change the font are very hand wavey and I'm honestly unsure what the principle motivations actually are), why isn't dislike of the new font a valid criticism? After all, the reason you are changing it in the first place is that you presumably did not like the old font. > 5) Insert your idea here > Browsing through the feedback on this thing, there seems to an enormus amount of hate in our userbase for it. Lots of that is of the form of "its ugly" which some might argue is not constructive, but I personally think is something that should be taken into consideration when there are so many people making the complaint, and the change is mostly about aesthetics. Others have more concrete criticisms about eye strain and non latin text not working as good, etc. Anyways to sum it up, this change is: *Fixing something that most users think is not a problem [citation needed, but that is my impression] *Causing behavior that significant numbers of users do not like (e.g. IDONTLIKEIT, its ugly, etc). A subset of users are experiancing behaviour that is objectively bad *In order to make it work acceptably, has to do something that a portion of our community finds ideaologically questionable, if not outright unacceptable. (Remember folks, we are a project built on ideaology. Ideaology is important) Given the above, it seems like a temporary revert until solutions to the problems can be found, or a permenant revert if solutions can't be found, may be advisible. --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
