--- lcrocker@nupedia.com wrote:
The tricky one is consolidating multiple edits to a page into one entry on the Recent Changes page, the way UseMod and Phase II did. This is a big performance hit. Perhaps a later redesign of the database would make it more reasonable, or perhaps a new implementation will come to mind that cures the problem, but for now I just don't want to burden the server with extra work for what is, to me, a cosmetic change that doesn't add functionality.
It's not a cosmetic change for me. Having the changes on the same article consolidated makes Recent Changes usable. The current setup makes it impossible for me to quickly scan the page for changes I might be interested in; my eyes trip over the seventeen changes in a row made to one particular article.
-- Stephen Gilbert
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