User blog comment:Ducksoup/Sprucing up your Main Page: Introducing the Hero Image/@comment-4189499-20150228064927

It takes up too much space and pushed too much of the main page content, such as links to articles, "below the fold", making it less likely for users to click them and further explore/interact with the wiki. Already our carefully crafted main pages are too hidden under all the (fairly vital but still annoyingly large) navigation stuff at the top of the page, and pushing them down further is only a hindrance, especially on smaller screens.

Edit: this is just judging from the image in the blog above.

Edit: Further question based on the image above in the blog; How will this work with fluid width? Will the image expand in ratio (meaning that the image will end up being huge on large screens), or will the sides just reveal more image as the page expands with the height staying the same, and if the latter, will we be able to control if the image is "centred" or "left/right aligned", as in being able to say which side of the image is further revealed as the page size changes?