User talk:Flightmare/sandbox/Main Page

My reflection on the Main Page.

Concept for future improvements:
 * First of all I would like to get rid of the PortalTransformer, I think it is quite broken. Everything can be redone through CSS. But most important of all: I think main page performance suffers from PortalTransformer due to the many template calls it has to make to give form to itself.
 * Trying to lessen the amount of clutter, Main Page appears to be overloaded.
 * I think visitors will benefit from more simplicity.
 * Testing indicated that users do not understand the nature of our current portal/slider component. In addition, the information it holds is mostly redundant when taking the top-navigation-bar in consideration.
 * I want to test with the slider widget, despite the big downside: the scarce amount of content it can hold.
 * Featured Article can be included in the slider.
 * Portal placement priority: Helping out seems to be important to me, moving this up in the food chain may help out new users in a more efficient way. The insane amount of content on the main page might render the helping out part invisible at the very bottom of the page.
 * How much of value is the MOTM portal?
 * Twitter feed: Don't interested people follow this themselves already?

~ Flightmare (talk) 15:42, May 27, 2012 (UTC)