User blog comment:Toughpigs/Wikia's new Forum demo/@comment-26686429-20120725234032

So, it's the message wall system repackaged for forums?

Stickied threads are cool - that's a good touch. I don't really see what the "kudos" system adds to forums myself.

If this is going to replace forums, then it needs a preview feature. Forums are often used to give complex code examples - and without a proper wikitext editor, this won't work.

Perhaps what is needed is a "full edit" mode for a post. Similar to how forum software has a "quick reply" feature, but a full editor if this is needed. This could easily be the MediaWiki wikitext editor.

This isn't to say I don't like the feature, and that it doesn't have the potential to improve involvement - but I'd hate to have to transclude complex code in a template just to get a preview to work, that's an ugly workaround for me.

A couple of issues that you may already know about, but I'm going to bug you with here:
 * In monobook, the "give kudos" message popup overflows the page, so the page width increases with a scrollbar when the mouse goes over it.
 * As this is based on message wall, the spam filter trip message still doesn't show up - so users will not know if their edit has been blocked. A popup message when something has been eaten by it (and potentially a way to recover it) would be good for all the blog-comment related systems.
 * "This reply has been removed" desperately needs a "view/restore" feature, with a quick way of deleting the thing outright if needs be. There should be a one-click delete (not remove then delete) for admins, and deleting the message via nuke still needs to be fixed.
 * In both Message Wall and Forums, the tag is broken, and just turns into a pre. A fix for this would be great.