On Sun, 2016-06-19 at 16:48 +0200, Purodha Blissenbach wrote:
The unified account login has been a pain my ass since the very earliest discussions about it. I knew, it would not work well, and indeed, it does not work well.
Could you please point to bug reports which cover specific aspects so that we can understand what "does not work well" for you?
You argue like a car maker that now offers automatic car only, regardless of their customer base and regardless of the increased fuel consumption, wear, etc.
The 'customer base' asked for Single User Login: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Forum&diff=next&a...
If your car with Single User Login increases fuel consumption, can you please point to specific issues with steps to reproduce the problem?
I suggest, if you make an additional feature changing basic behavior, have it as an addition, not a replacement. If you must make it a default, you must add an option to switch it off.
Anomie already explained why adding options and if/then/else code complexity creates huge software maintenance costs over the years...
andre