Feedback for "MyHome" - FFXIclopedia's new "Main Page"

[charitwo]

On Wednesday September 23rd, Wikia.com launched "MyHome" for all of it's wikis, to include our FFXIclopedia. You can read up about this new change here:
http://www.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Tou ... _Wednesday

Since it's been live for nearly 2 weeks ago, I was wondering what the FFXIclopedia community's thoughts were on it. Now, don't get me wrong, the concept is nice and the changes to the user masthead (the headers you see in the userspace) are very nifty. But the question here is the redirect from the root URL http://www.ffxiclopedia.org to MyHome. So that when you type in that, or the http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org subdomain, instead of being taken to the traditional "Main Page" you get taken to their MyHome page instead. I'm here to seek everyone's input on that behavior.

Everyone's feedback is welcome here in this topic.

[Mierin]

It sucks.

95%+ of the community comes to FFXIclopedia for the content. Not to edit. They don't care about the recent history of edits. There were important game related announcements on that front page.

By doing that, Wikia essentially made the statement that editing is more important than content. And it is not. Eyeballs are brought to the website to see the content. I do not care how many editors there are, there are probably 50x more browsers than editors. Therefore, the most important thing to appear on the front page isn't the edit history, it is the content.

[kasandaro]

As a user, I kinda have to agree - my bookmark actually targets Knowledge_Base (mostly cause I can't stand navigating the script menus on the left side). I certainly don't need to know when pages are getting edited, and I certainly don't need to know my paltry contribution.

[Seanr]

I don't like it... I liked the "old" main page better. I thought something was wrong with my bookmarks at first.

[Daremo]

"The My Home feature is only available if you're using the Monaco skin. If you'd like to see My Home, please visit your Preferences to change your skin."

I like my skin the way it is, to the point that I only signed up so I could use the skin I like. No big deal for anyone else, big deal for me. I'll be redirecting my bookmark to Knowledge Base as well.

[urthdigger]

I have to agree with the others. I don't really give a damn about editor statistics. Recent changes are something I'm interested in, but that's why I have the little box on the side of the screen telling me them. When I go to the main page, I want to see the main page! FFXI news and whatnot!

[Lordshadow]

It's rare to see the community in such complete agreement.
It is not, however, rare to hear me complain about something.
This sucks.
Bring back the old main page.

[Lukiki]

I agree with all that's been said above. There are widgets you can use if you'd like to see what's been edited lately so I don't think there's any need for this.

Keep the old main page.

[Catrinm]

I have to agree with the others, the recent edits isn't something I directly look for when I go to the wiki, although I do have a bookmark for that. I would much prefer that the main page of the wiki be, well, the main page of the wiki !!

[Tellahchan512]

If I wanted to see the editing stats, I'd navigate to that page.
Give us back our front page!

[elvaron]

I agree, I don't like it. At least give us the option to disable it, I've already looked for it under MyPreferences...

[Gahoo]

I believe it can be disabled under preferences->misc-> Disable my redirect to My Home

[Fretion]

I hadn't even noticed anything ... but that's because my bookmark was to http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page ... however, looking at what it does when you don't have a bookmark, and if I were to just type in http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/ ... it's horrible.

[Nightfyre]

I believe it can be disabled under preferences->misc-> Disable my redirect to My Home

First thing I did after reading this post was disable it. Thanks for the heads up.

[charitwo]

edit: disregard