On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:27:50 -0700, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
Does anybody else feel a pang of spite in "There will be no other notifications in case of further changes unless you visit this page." especially when other software doesn't force the user to "prove his loyalty" each time like something from
- Your World As I See It - Guilt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhwKqq0j1S8&list=PL6E40919035151385
That's an interesting way to take a feature likely intended to avoid spamming a user with piles of notification e-mails.
Why can't he be given a choice between "subscriptions that keep dying" and "subscriptions that act like ones everybody else is used to"?
I'm talking about official MediaWiki software decisions, please don't mention 'you can just install an extension'.
And OK maybe if one is worried about too many dead accounts there could also be 'renew once per 365 etc. days' features -- that users could also pick from too...
Start watching the bug on this issue: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31928
After that... either pay someone off to fix it or wait till someone feels like fixing it. It's already a known issue.