User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-961279-20110928062711

Guys, really? Why is this yet another "here's a big change in the way you do things and it's mandatory"? You're giving us a month to make the switch, which seems to be your standard time period for these things, but you'd get a lot more acceptance for the new features you keep rolling out if you'd run each trial period longer. Rather than say "here's your deadline", why not present it as "here's this new feature, use it for a few months, get to know it, get to like it", and then after people naturally like it, make the announcement of the switch.

This really looks like you're trying to graft blog comments into a talk page. You did the same thing with Article Comments. Article Comments are turned off at the wikis I'm an admin on because they slow down loading the page. If you need to go back through the history of those comments to check something, it takes extra time to wait for the next set of comments to load. Plus, the wikis I've seen that have ACs are flooded with inane comments that add no value to the page itself.

I don't know how many times I've had to scroll through page after page of blog comments, trying to find a comment that has a broken link in it. If I know the timestamp of when the comment was made by looking at a user's contributions, it's still hard to find the comment because the timestamp is translated into "4 hours ago", "3 days ago" or "June 10" (of what year?).

If the new Message Wall auto-archives old messages and protects them from editing, then that means there are going to be entries in the "Wanted categories", "Wanted pages", "Wanted photos" and "Wanted templates" that admins will be unable to fix." What if someone puts the Delete template on one of these messages and it somehow gets moved into the archive. Does that mean the "Candidates for deletion" category is going to have entries that cannot be deleted?

In fact, I'm going to send that into Special:Contact right now.