Hoi,
While some may think it perfectly ok to be contrary and argue vehemently to
keep old hat technology operational for them and everyone around them, I
wonder if they consider cost and consequences.
* Cost to maintain duplicate and increasingly feature incompatible
functionality
* Cost to the users who are appalled by the archaic software they have to
suffer
* Cost to the increased problem of recruiting new contributors.
When I read what is said, it gives me a really bad impression of what
"community" means. It is a priori not positive at all when you argue for a
blanket switch to disable new features.
I find it impossible to argue to our donors that the additional money spend
in keeping ancient software alive is well spend.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 6 June 2014 01:24, Juergen Fenn <schneeschmelze(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
2014-06-06 0:16 GMT+02:00 Danny Horn
<dhorn(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
The Flow team is going to work in a few weeks on
automatically archiving
talk pages, so that we can enable Flow on pages where there are already
existing conversations. Basically, this means moving the old discussions
on
an archive page, and leaving a link for "See
archived talk page" visible
on
the new Flow board.
That means there'll be a minute where a currently active discussion would
get interrupted, and have to be restarted on the new Flow board. That
will
be a pain, but it would only be a one-time
inconvenience during that
transition moment.
Interesting point. Thanks for keeping us up to date. You might like to
know, though, that on German Wikipedia most discussions about Flow
seem to focus on how to turn it off or how to keep it out of the
project altogether. Switching to Flow would require a community
consensus anyway. So could you please consider a global switch for
communities that would rather like to disable these new features
completely.
Regards,
Jürgen.
PS. We have never enabled the LiquidThreads extension neither. And the
new Beta link up right did not stay there for long.
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