Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24458012-20170209201536/@comment-197.218.82.115-20170216171420

"But is it? Is it not a chicken and egg question?"

Yes, if these other wikis became popular, they'd be getting more views, and wikia would be forced to surface them in many places. Most users find wiki pages using search engines. Heck most of them don't even know the distinction between a wiki and a random blog or any other site. So even if you try to surface these it won't matter much to them.

As others have noted lifestyle used to be a category there. It is likely that it didn't get a lot of views, and so they removed it. Overall there are so many "categories" of wikis that they would never fit into that menu anyway, and the clutter would make it less usable.