Board Thread:New Features/@comment-20644-20170522203248/@comment-9605025-20170523002116

A lot of other types of sites, not just wikis, have been trying to simplify navigation bars. Usually how it turns out is that the navigation bar contains a select few very general pages. Therefore, it takes a lot of browsing from page to page to find details and even then it isn't necessarily what the user wants. The university I attend did this to their main website. In addition, they consolidated a bunch of department websites onto the main website. I could go on a long rant about that, but the long and short of it is as follows. The simplified designs are typically better for those who don't know what they are looking for and are just at the site to casually browse around. However, for those who know what they are looking for, it actually becomes harder to find it. This is because what was once available right on the navigation bar is now hidden behind layers upon layers of links. Sure, once the resource is found, the URL can be booked marked. However, that means the user essentially has to recreate the old navigation bar by bookmarking all the pages.

Not to mention that all these new changes are very broken in IE and Edge. I know they are not supported browsers but I seriously wonder how great the page design can be if it only works on two browsers; and requires them to be the most recent versions at that.