Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-5014364-20161112215742/@comment-5014364-20170412184659

Previously, we had two Tier 1 tabs devoted to Episodes: "Seasons 1-6" and "Seasons 7-8", listing links to EVERY episode ever.

This has become untenable.

So to free up an entire Tier 1 tab, I merged both back into one "Episodes" tab, no longer including links to everything.

Instead, the new "Episodes" Tier 2 tabs includes:


 * Production (re-used from the old one)
 * Previous - Links to "Season 1", "Season 2", etc.
 * Season 6 - specific episode links for "the most recent prior TV season". Will be updated to Season 7 after it finishes airing.
 * "Seasons 7-8+" - to be filled out when we get episode names.
 * "H&L" - Histories and Lore Animated featurettes (only one link to the main page so far) -- needs to be updated with more links, probably to subsections by season.
 * "Telltale" - re-used from before
 * "Prequels" - links to storyline topics which have prequel novellas, which may be future adaptations (these days people are talking about potential prequels more and more).

"Characters" remained largely the same (took out a "Sweetrobin" and put in a "Gendry");

renamed "Cultures" to "World" and updated to keep in mind that people click on the Tier 3's more than the Tier 2's themselves. Mostly the same but streamlined to link to more of the "hub" pages under "Customs" etc.

But the big changes were to condense "Episodes" back into one Tier 1 tab from 2, and not include that many specific prior episode links (there's more than we can list, and I suspect the casual readers don't just find names by browsing at this point - they'd go to the season page).

Thus it frees up an entire Tier 1 tab, from turning "Episodes" back into one tab.

As per advice to make it something casual/new readers just visiting the site from google search would be attracted to, I made this new Tier 1 tab "Trending Articles".

Idea is to update it frequently with whatever happens to be either popular, or a topic which came up in the most recent episode. Popular as measured by the "Popular Pages" wiki tool.

Most of this was pretty intuitive: Jon, Daenerys, Tyrion etc., King's Landing, Oldtown, Destruction of the Great Sept, Wildfire, etc.

Most pertinent one is "Season 7 news" - the other ones look back to the previous episodes, this looks to news and new articles, i.e. "Alys Karstark", etc.

Let's see how this affects the click percentage.