Ioi,
I can’t see anything but harm coming from fragmenting the site. It’s the numbers and charts that differentiate this from every other gaming site – take them away and you’ll be in a murky red ocean.
That said, I have to say that I rarely look at the numbers and charts any more – I’ll be one of the 40%. I think that is because they are not in my face every time I come here – they fall off the right hand side of my screen. Previously I’d have seen something interesting in the numbers, clicked though, followed up and so on. Now I don’t notice until I scroll right, and there’s no real incentive to scroll right.
Of course, partly it will be because the numbers are less interesting than they were 2 years ago and everyone knows who won and lost.
I find it difficult to follow the forums on the front page – everything zooms past too fast, and it is a right royal pain having to scroll right to read posts.
Probably your best bet is to keep the front page for news’n’numbers with a click-through for the forums. That’ll keep the forums cozy as well.







