<What links here> no longer indicates what links through redirects. I think that this is a significant loss of function.

I need to be convinced that this is the right thing to do. The redirect pages themselves /are/ listed, and you can likewise see a list of what links to them. If the function automagically skipped over redirects to list two-level links mixed with one- level links, the list would be a bad picture of the real state of the database. Maybe it could list them separately (i.e., just do a second lookup for every link page found that is a redirect). That's not a bad idea.

The watchlist no longer watches User: pages or Wikipedia: pages. It's bad enough that User talk: and Wikipedia talk: weren't watched; now it's worse.

I don't know what you're talking about here. You can add any page from any namespace to your watchlist, and it will work just fine. In addition, if you watch an encyclopedia page, it will automatically add the corresponding talk page to the watch.

There are a few links that are now available only from the Quickbar: <Watch this page>, <What links here>, and <User contributions>. Can these *please* at least be listed at the bottom of the page?

That's a reasonable thing. Please add it as a feature request to Sourceforge so it won't get lost.

The watchlist also no longer displays nonexistent pages that I'm watching. You may not believe it, but I actually look at this list.

That's an interesting idea. Likewise, add it to the tracker.

A construction like "[[thing]]s" no longer mimics "[[things|thing]]" if the page [[thing]] doesn't exist. This is difficult to read.

That's reasonable too, please add it.

"~~~" doesn't change to my name in the <Preview> anymore, only in the <Save>.

May have to live with that one, at least for a while. But add it to the tracker.

The red colour of unwritten links is different from before -- in fact, hard to distinguish from the purple colour of followed links.

It was previously the exact red color of followed links, and I made it a darker red so it wouldn't conflict. If your followed links are purple, that's a personal browser setting. Most browsers use red.

BTW, I haven't had any problems with response times -- indeed, <130.94.122.197> is much faster than <www.wikipedia.com>!

There are no users on it yet. We won't know about performance until it actually gets some traffic.

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