Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24739709-20160511201958/@comment-5558012-20160512180017

Utkar22 wrote: It wasn't useless, just that most wikis did not use them. Partially true. Some wikis definitely seen it useful, but the hero image was meant to be a replacement for Special:Promote. Overall if failed to live up to Special:Promote and had many issues:


 * You had visible information promoting your wiki on your wiki, sort of like a milk company printing advertisement for themselves on their own milk cartoons. Doesn't make sense huh?
 * As such, the replacement feature encouraged duplicate content OR content that wasn't optimal for being displayed on a wiki's main page.
 * You could only have one image. Some wikis can't be described with a single image.
 * Some didn't like the use of space and the push-down of content (it was a great deal of wasted space, in my opinion).

These were some of the reason I didn't (and likely many other wikis) use it. After Wikia removed it from Labs for communities that weren't using it many months prior to today, the feature's demise was foretold.