Why did you choose to remove the advanced photo plug-in page from the front page?

I just removed the link to the article about Advanced rendering plug-in.
I prefer to keep the home page not to big: lots of people don't have big screens and I even saw people using Sweet Home 3D on a netbook! Recent news can be accessed from the blog link, and I mentioned the update of the Advanced rendering plug-in in the article about Sweet Home 3D 2.4.
The first link returned by a search for "plug-in" points to the article about Advanced rendering plug-in too.

Also with you releasing 2.4 yesterday what's your thoughts on the release date reading 25th instead?

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