Thread:Brandon Rhea/@comment-30384903-20160825184109

Hi there Brandon! I'm not sure if you are the most appropriate person to ask this question, but since we've sort of somewhat talked about how "hubs" are de-prioritized, this is kind of related to that.

Do you know if there's announcement about changing the bottom layout on all pages ? I've been on vacation for around 2 weeks and well... some parts of Yellowstone really do not have internet connection unless you pay (my at&t 4G cellular data was completely useless there) so I'm not sure when this happened; it could also happened beforehand and I just didn't notice.

Why this is relevant, is that, although one can again use the argument that "the previous hub links on the bottom weren't gaining enough traffic, so removing them wouldn't be anyone's lost"; to a certain degree, it'd loose a conveniency it once had, for to me, and I believe at least to a minority if not a lot of people, we used to be able to quickly identify what type of medium a subject of a certain wiki is focusing on. For example, w:c:miraculousladybug, as I wasn't used to seeing full on 3D animated tv series, I actually first assumed it was a featured film I somehow missed, and was able to quickly see that it was under "TV" instead of "MOVIES" when the bottom label was still displaying.

One may think by reading what's on the main page would give you enough hints, but unfortunately, and especially for the abandoned wikis, it just aren't always clear. I'm not saying I won't still be able to eventually find out if a wiki is about music, books, tv, games etc.... but um, for instance, I have basically no interest in "GAMES"; so before if I scroll down and saw its label, I'd quickly exit and move on. One may ask why I was there in the first place, and I'd be honest; sometimes, I'd click into adoption requests on wikis that have titles that "sounded" like they could belong to a book series... Cuz as noted before, the book community seemed significantly smaller than Games/Movies/TV, so I figured if there's anything I could do I'd offer. And it's during those moment I take full advantage of the former display of the hubs on the bottom of the page.

I'm sure the decision of removing the labels were indeed after a long discussion, and me voicing my objections here most likely wouldn't bring it back, but I figured I should still at least give feedback on it. If the links to the hubs really is that redundant, although I'm sad to see it go, there's nothing more I could argue about it, but I do however really wish there's still an easy and obvious way to differentiate what type of wiki one is in a glance. 