User blog comment:Springteufel/Update the Fan Feed - Explore more of FANDOM/@comment-28083312-20170829004745

In my opinion, it is much too large, & I will show you exactly why:

That is with Trending Fandom Articles vanished via my personal CSS; if it was present, it would be even more mind-boggling. The ratio of content to everything else is unacceptably, wildly disproportionate & represents an extremely off-putting experience readers (I am speaking form anecdote however), & you have to consider yet again that this is zoomed out as far as my browser can possibly go; I simply cannot zoom out any farther, so up-close it represents several pages-worth of scrolling through non-content, which needless to say is extreme. While I appreciate that the new Fandom Feed will have Wiki-related content within it, the presence of what is effectively native advertisements via Fandom Stories, & actual native advertisements (albeit only one) within the mix of everything else makes ads almost indistinguishable from Wiki-articles, & this is very annoying to readers who want to see the “See Also”s. I understand that ads are a fact of life & I accept that, but not being able to tell that what you are clicking is an ad at first glance, while perhaps it may be high-value, is a very aggravating & confusing experience for readers. To add increased length to an already bloated feed, I think, will not increase traffic to Wiki-areas such as Discussions but instead will make reasons more inclined to use ad-block or ignore the feed in its entirety. The effort behind this change I appreciate, I really do, because having Wiki-content side-by side sounds like you’re giving us more representation in these external fields; but it isn’t, instead it just muddies the divide between necessary advertisements & content people actually want. My suggestion to fix this problem? Flexibility. Ads are a part of life & Fandom is behind its stories, so I am not saying get rid of those; but make it flexible. If a page is a stub, as I showed in the galleries above, the advertisements & feeds should match the stories accordingly by shrinking. If a page is long, then by all means expand it to your heart’s content; just make it proportional, balanced, flexible. Make it represent an experience that does not leave moderation at the door, but one that changes to fit the situation & page being displayed upon. That would be a truly intuitive & user-friendly experience in my humble opinion. Because right now? I need to use adblock to get past all of this, I as an editor am hindered by these & can only get around it with my own extensive Adblock & eliminatory CSS, it would be far too distracting otherwise. If I can’t even edit easily, then readers, who have no such personal CSS or the inclination to use it, would suffer even more so.