Thread:LordTBT/@comment-11001-20151028022327/@comment-11001-20151030133722

Hello. That's great that you took the time to make your main page look good on a mobile device! You are correct that very few wikias take the time to do that, because it is actually fairly hard using standard layouts.

Unfortunately (or possibly fortunately), I just looked at your wiki-text and realized you are using verbatim to make the gallery at the top. Due to security concerns verbatim functionality will be removed from Wikia at the end of next week. I'm sorry if you didn't see the blog post about that sooner.

Looking at your page, the top part would be end up looking very similar using the curated main page -- except that the images for the category links (novels, etc.) would be a uniform size/grid with just two per row, and you would need to move any page links (Brian Jacques, etc) into a slider image at the top. I think the only thing you couldn't easily keep would be the "news" and "about" sections. If you want you can always have a link in the slider to a subpage where those are kept.

I guess the question is whether you want to give the curated main page a try, and just redesign the desktop version without verbatim, or if you want to continue making your own combination mobile/desktop friendly main page. To me it seems like the separation gives more freedom to make both parts look good, so I like splitting them up. But it is not my wiki :)

I do think that your efforts to make a good mobile main page fulfill the spirit of the spotlight requirement, so I am willing to make an exception to the literal rule for Redwall Wiki. When you have a mainpage that will work on mobile after next week, either through filling in the curated page or designing your own without verbatim, let me know.

And of course, let me know if you have any questions!