User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: March 3, 2015/@comment-426872-20150308003206/@comment-5151467-20150308174123

I agree, I find the module very useful to see if there are new photos uploaded. I don't necessarily click on it every time I see a new photo, but it is still a useful asset to unreasonably take away. Might as well take away that global navigation bar if clicks are determines something's usefulness. Also, if there are spoilers that a user has uploaded it provides an easy reference to quickly delete the image. Now you have created an extra step to click on the recent photos and scan through there. This should definitely be an option for the individual wiki to decide to include or not.

And also the new preview mode; I think the mobile and desktop views should be switched. I know you're trying to force the mobile stuff upon us, but we're all used to clicked on the left for previews.