Board Thread:New Features/@comment-20644-20170406222059/@comment-20644-20170420190114

JustLeafy wrote: Brandon Rhea wrote:

JustLeafy wrote: FFS, at least give us one reason why you won't shrink TFA right now. The suggested size of TFA could've made a lot less complaints about it. Seriously? Now this thread is soon going to be full of hate. Thanks, Wikia. Traffic. We decided to test the change first so we can ensure that it doesn't negatively impact the traffic that the module brings to news and stories. If the data isn't negatively impacted by the change, then we'll roll it out in a couple of weeks. But the thing is, people actually like the size reduction of TFA. It's the main reason why the right rails update is a benefit to us. The new design to the modules are okay but still...

Quantify the word "people."

Obviously I'm saying that to make a point, and the point is that comments from a handful of users on a forum thread are not indicative of a larger trend. They only represent the opinions of those people. They are important opinions. Stylistically, we agree those opinions. Our goal is the smaller module! But any change we make has to be based on data in addition to user feedback. If the design led to less traffic from wikis to news and stories, that's not a smart change and we'd have to reevaluate what any redesign of the module will look like. So if we're going to make this change, we need to make sure we do our due diligence first and make informed decisions.