Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-24006128-20200319160218/@comment-9605025-20200320160313

Regarding RecentChanges V. WikiActivity, I can certainly see why WikiActivity would be good for at-a-glance monitoring. That said, I personally don't really use it except to keep track of badges from the Achievements extension. From what I can tell, that is the only thing listed in WikiActivity that isn't listed in RecentChanges.

As for the accessibility question, I can definitely see that playing a potentially significant role. WikiActivity is linked to from multiple places so it is easy to stumble upon or refind; not so for RecentChanges. A lot of users, including myself, rely on lists and dashboards to remind us what special pages exist. When pages such as AdminDashboard and SpecialPages only list a subset, that means the others don't get as much love. For instance, it was a long time before I discovered the joys of Diff and I only recently discovered Permanentlink. Those particular examples may not be extremely relevant to most wikis but the point is that some special pages don't get used simply because users don't know they are there.

Regarding the UCP RecentChanges, it seems there is a sizable query string that gets attached automatically to the URL. Is that because of my personal settings or is that just the way it is? I'll save my breath on the filter interface because apparently modern web design in general, not just Fandom, disagrees with me on that aspect.

Regarding these threads, if the intent is to keep the focus on current issues, perhaps it would be make sense have the following sections in your initial post. You already have #2 and a bit of #3; the only one missing is #1.
 * 1) bullet list of previously resolved issues
 * 2) details on newly solved issues
 * 3) bullet list of known/in-the-works issues