Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9300845-20150227022853

I've been thinking about this for a while, and it's about time we have a discussion.

The wiki used to have working sideicons, which appeared on the left side of articles. They were used to denote which season an episode was part of, which characters appeared, and which characters were main, supporting, or minor. When Wikia implemented the new Fluid layout in December 2013, if I recall correctly, they disappeared. Multiple attempts have been made to modify the code for sideicons without success. (Although, a long-time user claimed they had seen working sideicons on a wiki that's using the Fluid layout.) Even so, users continue to add invisible sideicons to articles.

I'm beginning to have second thoughts on the usefulness of sideicons, for two main reasons. One, since we can't seem to get the code to work, why keep them? They are looking rather superfluous, and right now they contribute virtually nothing.

Two, recent episodes of the show, at the time of this writing, are beginning to feature quite a lot of characters -- the current record being 65 (shared by The Butterfly and The Spoiler if anyone's wondering.) Can you imagine 100, or even 200 characters appearing in a single episode -- and the same number of sideicons appearing on its respective article? I imagine they'd be a bit of a hassel to keep track of.

For these reasons, I say we get rid of the sideicons completely.

What are your thoughts? All users are welcome to voice their opinion, although I would prefer users who are familiar with sideicons. 