Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-38315542-20190619030431/@comment-3020860-20190728181216

AnnabellRice wrote: Oh, I'm not offended, and apologize if my asking for potential theories seemed argumentative, I'm genuinely open to any suggestions on where I might be able to help resolve this.

I do indeed mean view when I refer to the category's format. I'm talking about the way the population of articles appears to the user, that is to say the arrangement or layout, and there's currently three different options (classic, exhibition, and dynamic) available via the site's software.

Hmm... maybe there are different types/classes of appearance category, but the only choices I see at e.g. Category:Peter_Parker_(Earth-616)/Appearances are "Classic" and "Dynamic".


 * Classic is in chronological order (with MMMM-YY dates after each title) and looks like it should.
 * Dynamic, as you say, is completely worthless crap. (OK, maybe not your exact words.)

But I know not this "Exhibition" you speak of! And it sounds like User:Ben_1,000,911 doesn't, either. ("And if I can get to exhibition and it works...")

I even went into Special:Preferences and changed my "Category page layout" setting to "Category Exhibition"... and nothing changed. Still not seeing anything of the sort, at least not at Category:Peter_Parker_(Earth-616)/Appearances, which looks identical to how it looked before I changed that preference.

Is there some complex algorithm that governs the availability of this mythical "Exhibition" format?