Board Thread:Smashpedia Business/@comment-24529455-20140810201321

OK, so last week when we were debating on the featured article, a lot of you thought we should feature more than just an article. There were requests for featured characters, featured stages, featured items, and the like. (There was also a request for a featured user, but that's a different story). I do not have a strong feeling one way or the other, but I did weigh the pros and cons of having four different features instead of one.

Pros:
 * More Navigable Homepage: Having a featured character, stage, and item would help new viewers to navigate Smashpedia more easily. Sure, we do have the slideshow, but featuring specific characters/stages/items might make things easier.
 * Less Debate: Man was that recent featured article debate stressing. Having three or more featured categories will probably be easier to decide.

Cons:
 * Space: Featuring three or more different articles would certainly make the home page bigger, especially if the Featured User also happens. We probably don't want the home page to be too big, because new users will not want to read all of it. It might be better to keep a single featured article until SSB4 comes out and the Daily Updates will cease, freeing up space on the Home Page.
 * Time: This is more of an irrational reason, but we may eventually run out of articles to feature if we do 3 of them at once. I'm not so worried about items, but there are only so many characters. However, that should not really detract from us doing this at all, and if we were to do this, we should probably only change it once a month anyways.

So that's my two cents. What do you guys think? 