Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-23865-20170309163929/@comment-23865-20170316163248

Hey, thanks for replying. :)

@The Dragon Demands, I've seen your discussion thread about nav. Thanks for bringing this up here as well. Here's what I've learned from our designers and developers:

This new version of the nav that we're now testing uses the same rules as the current nav. So (if I'm not mistaken) 4 tier 1 tabs.

That said, we're still debating whether we should keep using a plain number constraint, or perhaps count characters and have a total character limit for all tabs. That second approach is more tricky, though, as we'd need to factor in the width of the little arrows next to each tab. So the jury's still out on that one.

In the mean time, though, I'd like to take a stab at proposing a different take on the nav, given current constraints. I can dig up data from Google Analytics on how users click today's nav and share that with you guys. That may give us some insights into how to build a new one. I'd post the data + proposal in your discussion thread about nav, and we can debate & then work on it there. If you'd like that sort of help, of course. :) Should have that early next week.

@Xanderen, you're right -- we're trying to strike a balance here between catching the reader's attention and not overdoing it. We're still gathering feedback on this, so I'll just note your voice in the "Too in your face, people" column.

Unfortunately, tests with a smaller video in the right rail have shown that only 1/10th of viewers click that type of video. That suggests that we need to go for front-and-center here.

Now, the consequence of being front-and-center is that the video content needs to compliment text content, and the two need to work well together. That means the video needs to be on topic, interesting, visually appealing, and more. Because we're new to this, we still need to learn a lot to get that right every time, for every video.

If we're successful, our theory is we would not see it as intrusive -- because it would just fit there, both visually and in terms of the video's contents.

That's why I mentioned above that we'd like your feedback on the script, before we start producing the video.

Because Game of Thrones is such a popular wiki, we want to create top notch videos for you, with professional voice-over, and great visuals, in line with your theme. But we can't do that without your input, because... Well, we don't know how, yet. And we're learning as we go. :)

So that's the ask here: would you collaborate & work with us, wiki-style, on the first couple scripts? Our Video Team put it together based on your input, and when we agree it's presentable, we can show it to the world and see if your readers want to watch these.

Does that make sense?