On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:20 AM, svetlana svetlana@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
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- 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