mysterious codes? All that is needed is knowing how to indent and sign.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:17 PM, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
On 12/19/2009 09:25 AM, Teofilo wrote:
Wiki talk pages as they are now are good. Don't kill them.
Having not used LiquidThreads yet, I can't speak to your experience with it. But the existing discussion system is a usability nightmare.
As a software developer, I'm perfectly comfortable dealing with its dark mysteries. I've spent tens of thousands of hours typing mysterious codes into giant files interpreted by unforgiving machines. But for the 98% of humanity that doesn't have much technical background, our discussion system comes across as somewhere between perplexing and actively hostile.
For proof, just look at how many software packages have copied our approach to discussions. As far as I know, the number is zero. The common solutions seen in forums, blogs, and community sites across the internet have a lot in common with one another, and are rightly nothing like what we have.
I have no idea whether LiquidThreads is the right solution, but if we want to broaden participation, increase the number of active editors, and improve our image, we definitely need something better than what we have. Hopefully we can do that in a way that keeps the benefits of the current system, but I think it's vital to mitigate the many and glaring current flaws.
William
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