On Friday, June 6, 2014, Antoine Musso hashar+wmf@free.fr wrote:
Receiving a watchlist notification because some other part of the talk page got changed (albeit I never contributed to that sub discussion) makes it nearly impossible to follow-up on replies. And I am probably not the only one.
You just pointed out to the reason why I can't watch properly en.wiki Technical Village Pump, and I still don't know how those that do organize their lives. :)
Back to the point about how to kill LiquidThreads. At least in a place like mediawiki.org, the process could be something like
* announce a deprecation date n months down the road, while giving editors the ability to get Flow in their user_talk pages already now (opt-in)
* define also a simple process for editors to request the Flowification of pages they maintain
* agree on a transition plan for special pages like [[Project:Support desk]], together with the contributors maintaining those pages
* by the due date, complete the transition -- no LQT, more Flow.