Was changing MMO Fallout’s menu layout necessary? I would argue yes.
- Individual categories for games didn’t help organization, it harmed it.
- Our metrics show that few actually used them.
- Filing games into categories of “listed,” “covered but not listed,” and “not listed” was a massive waste of time.
- Always trying to compact space.
- I keep a list of people who actually care about which games are listed on this website. It is empty.
- The growing number of categories didn’t help server stability.
So what does this mean for categories? Right now I have three main categories which will be expanded to:
- News
- Editorials
- Games
- Reviews
- Previews
Reviews and Previews replace “Why Aren’t You Playing,” and “Beta Perspective,” but only because having that on the menu would take a lot of space. The “(p)reviews” we do will remain mostly the same, impressions pieces which highlight positives and negatives of the games without a final overall score. Overall, not a whole lot is going to change here.
The process is mostly to make the website more accessible, as well as more manageable by myself.
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