Board Thread:New Features/@comment-131168-20150324230045

I originally wrote this for the feedback button from Special:WikiFeatures, but trying to submit just gave me an "Invalid parameter: feature. Please try again." message. Sooo I guess my complaining can be part of a public discussion about this new feature.

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As shown in the example Breaking Bad image it looks pretty nice, but that must be some nonstandard skin. In reality it just appears to be a big sharp rectangle that pushes the rest of the page contents down, and unless you've carefully planned it's easy to clash with the background too.

There's also that one of the things mentioned at Help:HeroImage is that this image would be used to promote the community on the main wikia.com page--but almost always when I follow those links they don't even have a hero image, so it doesn't seem to be a trait of this feature after all.

If those images are used, though, the images shown on wikia.com aren't at all of the same aspect ratio as what shows on the wiki's front page, so what are picking for? Something that looks OK super-wide on a wiki's front page might not look OK when cropped/expanded to be the narrower or even tall images on the main wikia.com. 