User blog comment:Jenburton/Coming Soon: Message Wall in Labs/@comment-1724320-20111024232130

No long text walls for me. I'd like to say that the vision here of making communication simpler is a good one, but that the architecture and the implementation does not fit at all, and in my opinion should be scrapped and started over from scratch. MediaWiki was never made with this kind of product in mind, and it shows. There are numerous problems with having individual pages for comments, including long page names, problems in RecentChanges (I know you're trying to fix this), and the possibility of job queue craziness/server problems if something is moved or deleted. It just doesn't fit MediaWiki, and it's not good enough for me.

The still-unaddressed problem is anon notifications. I feel like I was the first one to bring this up to anyone, and it needs to be fixed before any serious wiki can use it, even if it's just using the existing new message bubbles for them. I also would like to see rollback users be able to edit user talk archives.