User blog comment:Jenburton/An Update on Message Wall/@comment-3235402-20111005153238/@comment-10532749-20111007173816

Wikipedia in itself is an improvement over creating web pages with content directly in HTML. You could argue that it would be cool if Wikipedia worked as an FTP server with free access for everyone - you would go in and directly modify source of each page in HTML. Of course you would need to download it first to your computer, change it in HTML and then reupload.

Would that be helpfull? But that's how it was done in good old days of the internet (with the exception that no one gave access to that publicly). So Wikipedia improved on this process - it allows you to edit pages from within your browser.

Doing something "the old way" just for the sake of it - if it's not a very good way of doing stuff - seems a bit silly to me.

So instead, let's talk why Message Wall is worse in your opinion than User Talk pages and let's try to fix that. Because I can easily list things that Message Wall is A LOT better at that User Talk pages are.

Unless your main motivation is "let's leave it hard, because that's trendy and makes me cooler since I can already do that".