We need to remember the caching implications of this, by the way. Pulling the number of Flow topics associated with a page has to happen in Javascript, on a secondary thread, because we can't regenerate the HTML for every article page every time its talk page changes.
On May 23, 2014, at 1:43 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma.rex@gmail.com wrote:
I kind of like the idea, but this:
On Fri, 23 May 2014 18:24:51 +0200, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoekstra@gmail.com wrote:
I would be very reluctant about any change that might cause a newcomer to edit a talk page and suggest a change (that probably nobody will read, and if they do probably won't respond to) than just edit the page.
Such behaviors seem pretty likely to me (this would be caused by making talk pages more visible – or more visible than article editing, even – not just by adding the number by itself). It'd surely be interesting to actually test it :D
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