Wikipedia talk:2014 main page redesign proposal/draft/Guy Macon

RfC: Should the Wikipedia main page be redesigned along the lines of Simple Main Page?
See Wikipedia:2014 main page redesign proposal.

Survey

 * Support as proposer. There is a reason why the Google main page looks the way it does. --Guy Macon (talk) 11:14, 25 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Strong oppose. This RfC is still open, right? It's lightweight, but that's about the only redeeming quality I can find in it, to be perfectly honest. The Main Page is the first impression one has of Wikipedia, and this proposed one hides the major pieces of information that can serve as examples of the content Wikipedia provides. It's really wasteful on screen real estate; even on a 1024x768 monitor there's still an unsettling amount of unused space on the right. It's 2014; I don't know why we aren't even going to utilize CSS here. If the point really is to make the site friendly for those unfortunate souls with 56k dialup, then we've already failed because most major articles are much, much, much larger than the Main Page currently is.  Protoss  Pylon  03:34, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Strong Oppose. - The simple one looks pretty much empty, In short I'd say the main page's fine as it is. →Davey 2010→  →Talk to me!→  17:40, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose, this is how web sites looked in early 90's or so. Too simple. --Stryn (talk) 18:29, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Support as alternative to the current Main Page. This has no chance of passing as-is, so I would instead support a compromise solution that offers this as an alternative, minimalist Main Page. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 01:12, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose We're not a search engine and google. This is even worse and more bland than at present!♦ Dr. Blofeld  12:52, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose for the obvious reasons. -- Taku (talk) 20:53, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. I'd go even further. http://codepen.io/awesomephant/full/zJbCo / http://codepen.io/awesomephant/full/jnrcm --Courier New (talk) 11:28, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * opposeUser:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 16:44, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose Sorry, but this is a great idea, but it would defeat the purpose of ITN, DYK, TFA, TFP, and TFL, and it would essentially dumb down the site to something that we aren't. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 17:42, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment Isn't the low-latency front page for Wikipedia the splash page currently hosted at www.wikipedia.org? From there, you can immediately search for any article in any Wikipedia, without loading the main page of any language Wikipedia. Or is that still too big? 86.161.109.226 (talk) 21:45, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. This is squeaky clean. I prefer it to the current design. JamesDouch (talk) 00:35, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Threaded discussion

 * Comment. The search field below the 'Welcome to Wikipedia' in your design wouldn't be necessary, especially when the [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Winter Winter] skin comes out. JamesDouch (talk) 08:43, 3 July 2014 (UTC)