[S] Remove Games page and put it on homepage?

[Meph]

At the moment, we plan on having a games page for finding trials to play on AAO. But what if we put it on the homepage instead? Most vistors to this site aren't forum members; they just want to play games. Plus, there isn't much else we can put on the homepage.

Current design for homepage
Current design for games page

I wanted to have our news and announcements on the homepage, but that's easier said than done. We could just have a little link to the announcements forum, anyway.

[Unas]

I wanted to have our news and announcements on the homepage, but that's easier said than done.

Actually, it's quite easily done - at least in the English section, where thanks to you we have one topic for each announcement. Fetching the first post from each topic is quite simple.

And honestly, I think moving the whole trial list on the homepage is bad.
A homepage is like the cover of a magazine : you usually want the cover to be a short description of the latest content to attract attention; you don't write the whole index of the magazine on its cover.

Including some direct links to trials on the home page is good - that's already the point of the random featured trial on the V5 homepage. I agree it can be improved, and having categories that highlight latest activity is a good idea in that respect - but putting the whole list with the search engine in there seems inappropriate to me.

[Meph]

In that case, I'll keep it how it is with sliders and popular categories. But is there anything better to use than sliders?

[GanonZD]

I think that part works fine.

But this discussion made me consider other improvements to the website, so I created this topic for that.