| ioi said: What you guys need to realise though is that "my stuff", whilst useful to me and you, takes up valuable homepage space that could be used for listing more stories. When we have 40-50 articles per DAY going up at E3 we're gonna need as many ways of organising and displaying them as we can - the news rotator shows major featured articles, most popular (with tabs to filter by console etc) lists out the majority of what people want to read about, recent headlines provides the list from which stories can become popular if they get picked up by readers. You say it accomplishes less with more but with the new setup we have the potential to make 87 different news pieces accessible to someone visiting the front page (5 for the news rotator. 8x9 popular stories and 10 most recent - of course there will be some overlap) compared to 28 on the old site (with a lot of overlap and the main list of 20 being way down the page) - whilst also making the reviews more prominent and keeping all the sales stuff up there where it should be. I think that is a fair accomplishment actually and a very neat solution to a number of different problems we have been facing. |
Ahhh... there are no perfect solutions... life is full of trade-offs. 
You've done a really great job balancing conflicting goals, but perhaps you're demanding too much of a single homepage. I wonder if it's possible to have a special E3 homepage during that event--one that is streamlined for the purpose--with a link to the "normal" homepage that has all the wonderful content that we've come to expect from the site. That way you don't have two massive competing objectives trying to rule the first page seen.
Probably a stupid idea from an implementation perspective, but I try to think out-of-the-box every once in a while just to see if a novel idea might actually work out...
