Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-26567650-20150223234309

Attention users, this motion is to propose the removal of the category buttons on the main page due to it's redundancy. Why I'm claiming it's redundancy is to many factors...
 * Global Wikia navigation & search bar: Updated search bar (finally!) makes it easy for users to search what they want, no holds barred. (i.e. I search Sonic, it'll give me Sonic)
 * Local navigation bar: The local navbar is already made with enough space on where we are able to fit the entire category buttons on the navbar. This improves visibility and it's a lot more cleaner. This is a big point.
 * With that said, I've currently updated the navbar with the categories.
 * 'Characters' and 'Games' is changed to 'Major Portals' and 'Minor Portals'
 * 'Top Content' is renamed and includes Sonic News and Main-Updates.
 * 'On the Wiki' and 'Community' will stay the same.


 * In general, it's just bad.: Let's admit, the category buttons is tiresome. It's too big, bulky, excess and not alot useful compared to the global and local navbar. The buttons has been on the SNN homepage for years and it's served us well but with Wikia's new direction and a lot of other factors listed above it's time to let go of the buttons. I understand, especially for oldbies, that the buttons are wiki tradition. But we're clearly seen other wikis now dropping the buttons in favour of something else, like the navbars. We cannot hold on these buttons forever. You can complain that they look nice there but it's basically serving no purpose.

Fundamentals first.  