User blog comment:Dammej/A glimpse of the future (of the wiki)/@comment-2256917-20100925215717

Yes, that right-side "bar" is far from good. Many articles will become ridiculously longer, like newspaper articles. The edit window also becomes rather small (cluttering code).

The core of what average web-surfers complain about seems to be embodied in this design: the purpose of the page is obscured or cluttered with ads (for unregistered users), or with dead space (for registered users). It's too bad that the text couldn't at least wrap around that "Wikia Spotlights" bar (which itself takes up space uselessly, for reg. users). That much dead space, when the article averages about 16 words per line, looks sorry. Much worse than the space we lose on the left side already. I guess we'd have to decide whether to break the longer walkthroughs up into "Acts".