Hi,
On Sat, 24 May 2014, at 0:37, Jon Robson wrote:
Then people
would avoid starting a talk page when the number is 0. This is, in my view, a bad thing.
This is a valid assumption and one we could test. A zero might even
prompt new discussions. We'll never know unless we explore it. I'm
just curious if there are any plans to test this and other similar
hypotheses.
Then they suffer when the number is in the middle somewhere.
They would also have too many discussions when an article is wrong - people would be more
likely to forget to check for duplicate thread if they just look at the number.
I don't want the activity to suffer in any of such cases - I would prefer it stayed
the same.
This number
would have to be generated by MediaWiki or Flow, but surely not by MobileFrontEnd. As I
said, MobileFrontEnd is only a skin.
Not true. MobileFrontend has a few more bits of code that make it a
little more than a skin - e.g. special pages like Special:Nearby. It
currently records this number via a hook and is agnostic to Flow and
MediaWiki (although this code could easily be added to MediaWiki core
to be standardised)
I feel that these features would go away soon and be put into software which both mobile
and desktop people use.
Gryllida.