User blog comment:Jenburton/An Update on Message Wall/@comment-1788742-20110930165635

Good post, but I feel still like you're ignoring a very, very large portion of the feedback. Make it optional. I think that making it an option would make more wiki users tolerant of this change. Then wikis can choose whether they prefer talk pages or message wall and can switch between the two in labs. Then, if the majority says it's a good change, then make talk pages completely replaced by message wall. And I'd like an answer to this question- why can't this be optional? I understand you've been busy answering other questions, but I'd really like an answer to this.

I see no reason why it shouldn't be an option, and I'd really like an answer to this question. "We plan this to replace user talk pages all across wikia" is not, in my mind, a proper answer. So, please respond. Because we should be able to test this, and then decide whether we want it to be an option, or, if, indeed, we want this at all. And the fact that you can turn this on and off makes it more and more feasible that this should be an option for all wikis. Wikia Staff, please consider this.