Vibha Bamba wrote:
I tried to get into that conversation and leave a message for Kevin Song. I could not use the regular talk page after using flow for Hovercards for the last 12 months. This is what millions of readers getting into the system feel like.
Click edit.
I hope flow ships this year. Concerned sighs.
Just curious, what's the concern? Wikipedia's SEO? Have you read comments on other sites (e.g., YouTube) and compared to comments on Wikimedia wikis? There's a real cost to reducing barrier to entry. And, for what it's worth, tens of thousands of people engage in lengthy, sometimes multi-year, conversations using wikitext. Perhaps you're the outlier. :-)
I hope people working directly on Flow have mastered wikitext talk pages. As we've previously discussed on this mailing list, it's incredibly difficult to build a better solution without first fully understanding the use-cases, requirements, and intricacies of the current system.
MZMcBride