User blog comment:MEffect Fan/New wiki skin opinion/@comment-217683-20101014235143/@comment-2088100-20101015003146

Yeah. In general shorter and smaller navigation is better, speaking from a totally clueless new user perspective. I'd like to think that our navigation is not amongst the 'longer, confusing' category, since it's already pretty simple, with sublinks provided for convenience more than anything.

That said, I think the site navigation under the new skin doesn't suffer too much from the reduced amount of links. The "Gameplay" links are probably the most noticeable... there's simply too much gameplay info that people could be potentially interested in to possibly condense down into just 7 links without excluding something important. (Notably, Classes doesn't appear in the current form of the new skin's navigation) Narrowing down what should and should not be included should probably be supplemented with data from Special:Mostvisitedpages, to help us see which pages get the most hits.

So, that was kind of a ramble. Basically: I agree that shorter menus are better in general, but Wikia might consider an exception for a site like us. People likely come here for many different reasons, so it'd be nice to have navigation that makes it easy for all those folks. (e.g. people looking for straight gameplay information on one or another game, as well as those looking for more detailed information about Mass Effect's universe at large.)