Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-14908162-20160730095713

Hello everyone,

I would like to make a proposal to turn off the Category Exhibition, which will result in all category pages loading in a page exhibition mode instead of the category exhibition mode. Right now, if someone clicks on a category it will automatically be displayed in the category exhibition form, even if the user has switched to page exhibition previously. I recently discovered that category exhibition can be turned on and off via the Admin Dashboard (unfortunately only admins can access this board, so even if I were to provide a link, most of you wouldn't be able to see it). This also means that if we decide to turn it off, it is not a permanent change and it can be turned back at any time.

There are several benefits gained from turning off category exhibition mode: Category Exhibition makes navigation harder and slower, because it only displays sixteen pages instead of the two hundred. This is especially true for categories which have a lot pages but have not reached 2000 pages yet, which is the point when page exhibition will be the only mode available. In addition, new users of visitors might not know how to turn off exhibition mode, and might therefore have trouble finding the song they want to find. This could be countered by saying that category exhibition makes it easier to find a page, since it (most of the time) displays all pages as an image instead of only the most popular eight, but this might be overshadowed by the fact that people will have to search for a long time to actually find it, not to mention that they might miss the page if they only remember a small part of the PV, in which case that specific image might not be displayed at all. Like mentioned before, categories with 2000+ pages are not available for category exhibition mode. If we were to turn off category exhibition mode, all categories would have a more consistent layout. In my experience, page exhibition loads a lot faster than category exhibition. However, this might not really matter for someone who has a better Internet connection than I have. Some visitors might find page exhibition more appealing than category exhibition, but this can also work the other way around.
 * Faster navigation
 * Consistency
 * Loading time
 * Appeal

I would like you to ask to vote on the poll below. Beside "Yes" and "No" it also has the option "Test Period", which basically means that I will disable category exhibition for a limited amount of time (let's say one week), after which we will vote again, this time with only the options "Yes" and "No".

Should we turn off category exhibition? Yes No Test Period

I'll keep the poll open for about a week (August 6th) to make sure that everyone gets a chance to vote. Feel free to ask questions or discuss in the comments.

Thank you for reading this message and I hope you all have a nice day =). 