Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-131168-20150114185918/@comment--20150114191128

Hey there,

This is a new feature we are rolling out and testing to help our international communities grow (and to make Wikia more user-friendly for non-EN users who often will see EN wikias appear first in search results).

Now, the issue of it reappearing is a bug that we believe is happening only on the Firefox browser. We will porting a fix to that out in the next 24 hours to take care of that issue. Once you dismiss it, it should go away, that is the intended behavior.

I understand your point about perhaps giving direct links to pages as opposed to always the front page. I can't entirely speak for the rationale it has its current design, but here are some general thoughts about why we did it this way: First, it's a new feature we're testing. We want to make sure it's effective and useful. If it's not, we'll tweak and I'm sure page-level linking may be discussed if we do. This particular iteration was easy to code. If you start introducing page-level links, you get into URL encoding issues and cases where the page name on one wikia does not match the page name on another (so you'd have to do a lot of complex rules for page matching). Secondly, it would make interlanguage links on a page redundant. Lastly, linking to the homepage creates a more memorable experience as a user. I'm more likely to remember a community as a whole if I can identify it's overall purpose and structure than if I just visit one particular page.