On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:20 AM, svetlana <svetlana(a)fastmail.com.au> wrote:
Hi all.
I'm including some thoughts on Echo below.
- *it* *doesn't* *scale* (constantly seeing a "(3)" or new emails pop up if
you're active in ~6 discussions is a pain)
+1
- _nothing_ on-wiki ever warrants an urgent reaction
ever
+1
- distracting, especially as I'm getting more
active with talking
+1
- this last point caused me to switch it off entirely
everywhere
Not yet for me. But it is almost there, since I started to ignore the
red ballon due to its presence every time (with 20+ items).
- I'm reading an article to get more information
and this piece of software drags me back into editing while I'm merely reading
something and intend to return to the watchlist in the evening
+1
...
- special:watchlist and special:notifications overlap in functionality
+2. See also
existing bugs
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20541
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21610
Helder