I'm not in favor.
The news page is the only place where you can reach the entire audience of FAF. There is no other place to do that. Removing that, or making the role of the page smaller, would be a step back in time.
To be more on point about your suggestions:
Youtube / Twitch new videos/streams
If I'm interested in following any of these casters then I'll subscribe them on Youtube. There is no need for them to be visible all the time. What we have now (occasionally one is highlighted, and sometimes a new caster is) is fine.
On top of that it will involve maybe even more manual work then the entire news hub ever was:
- (1) You'll need to manually add / remove casters from the list of casters that we're interested in
- (2) You'll need to manually accept which uploaded video or stream is shown
Where (1) has the issue that there's no clear criteria: if someone uploads 1 faf video is that enough? Or does it need to be 20? Or maybe monthly content? How do people apply, and when do they get removed again?
And (2) has the issue that if you do not manually check and approve videos and streams you can end up with all sorts of content that is completely unrelated to FAF. One example being Gyle playing Broforce - nice and everything but it has no place in the news hub.
"Top" players of the week
I like this idea where you share the 'top trends' automatically, but I'll also be honest that I think it should be more about content then about players. It would be an interesting, easy to automate way to promote (new) maps, mods and perhaps even replays.
Adaptability
I don't necessarily see the value in this. Sounds like it is more difficult to maintain, with little gain for the user. Why not make 1 page with clear sections?
It feels to me that there's a better direction to take. A lot of the news does not need to be manually updated / created / deleted. Take the tournaments section. You could create some user flow where:
- (1) A tournament director can submit some form, perhaps on the home page of FAF
- (2) The form has all the information you need, including a thumbnail, the initial text, title, the date of the event, etc
- (3) Once submitted the tournament director receives an identification token to be able to make mutations
- (4) You (as promo team) then gets to accept / reject submissions and / or mutations
As a result the 'work' would be reduced to checking the submissions once a week, accept / reject them and move on. Everything else, including removing the tournament from the page again, can be entirely automated. This would of course involve database and server changes, but that is fine - you'll need to learn about that as a web developer at some point during your career. The sooner the better.