On 10/30/11 4:14 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
One take away from this experience of yours could be that the process of utilizing talk pages is extremely arcane and horrible from a user experience perspective, while using WikiLove to communicate - even though it is the "wrong" channel - is far easier and preferable to new users.
Would it be then logical to hang a proper communication tool which eventually would land the user on the talk page where Wikilove now hangs?
Yes, and one has been designed. However, we have paused the process because the entire "talk page" process is just broken on so many levels and it was thought that adding a new possible point of confusion would be detrimental.
(One of my favorite things about talk pages is that, for most people, *there is no talk page button*. There's a "Discussion" tab. So when someone says "Hey, just leave me a message on my talk page and I'll help you out!" that means. . . nothing.)