I am not a fan of the new software for one simple reason. If there's a way of seeing the edits other people have made, I can't find it. This means that it's incredible hard to track vandalism, for one thing. For another, it makes it infuriating and pointless to have watched pages. Why watch a page (especially if you know the page is being used to push an agenda and you are trying to make sure it remains NPOV), if you have to read through a couple of versions of a longish article to try and find the changes. Couple this with the fact that the watched list seems to only show the most recent change (or maybe that was just a bug), and I'm screwed. Real-world example: Helga (the bane of the historian) is tweaking Prussia again from various angles to make sure we understand it's innate German-ness. I go to see what those changes are, and if they are valid, or if she's tried to de-polanize something -- no diff. My watch list says this is the only change since I last checked, but the article history says Helga has made a couple of changes, and so has Eclecticology, a reasonable contributor. This is not useful.
Oh -- I also miss the link from the talk: page back to the related article.
Otherwise, it seems very nice ;-)
Jules
Recent Changes no longer gathers up edits to a page in a single line with "n changes". Is this desirable behaviour? It means we have to load an even longer page to see all the edits since we last visited, and it's harder to scan the list for interesting articles because the same names keep popping up.
tarquin
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