On 14/01/14 00:18, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
On 01/13/2014 12:19 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
Not as fast as revisions, and we seem to cope with those.
Fair enough.
So you'd implicitly create the user, track it by cookie? With some well designed UX this'd work well and hide IPs entirely (and allow users that do create an account to retroactively rename their contribs).
Yes.
Wouldn't that affect caching though?
Not very much. We already give anonymous users a session cookie on edit, which suppresses the frontend cache, the primary reason being (drumroll) user talk page message notification. So the impact would be that the cache-suppressing cookie would have a longer expiry time.
-- Tim Starling