Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1526346-20170909190537/@comment-26923519-20170912131535

Fan26 wrote: Lady Aleena wrote: Fan26 wrote: But it's not. It's a different name for a newer feature, as keeping the same name would be confusing.

("Oh, hey [User1], which type of Talk Pages do you have?"

"What are you talking about, [User2]? I just have Talk Pages.")

I can see where you're coming from with this social network thing, but part of the appeal of Fandom is that's a social network crossed with Wikipedia, not just Wikipedia for certain topics.

Yo.-User:Fan26 (Talk) 11:22, September 12, 2017 (UTC) I am all for socializing within reason. Stop by my talk page and say "Hi!" and talk about things. If the discussion on my talk page starts getting into a topic of an article, I'd say something like "Hey, let's take this to article's talk page and see what everyone else thinks." I'd then start the discussion on the talk page, and socialize about the topic there, all the while keeping an eye on the ball that the discussion should lead to article improvement, though a little fangirling may happen.

And Fan26, you might want to pipe your user name in your signature.

Part of the problem with talk pages was

Fan26

Lady Aleena (talk) 11:57, September 12, 2017 (UTC) Part of the problem with Talk Pages was that there's a specific format you have to follow for there to be any organization. Message walls are easier to use in that respect.

Many older wikis still use Talk Pages though. Wookiepedia, for example, is all Talk Pages. But that's mostly because wookiepedia is all content related, and they operate semi-independently from the rest of FANDOM as a whole, with a different system of organization and admin levels, and they try to discourage socializing unrelated too discussing their content, which Talk Pages help discourage. Message walls allow users to socialize without disrupting the rest of the wiki, which is why a large part of admins prefer them.

Yo.-User:Fan26 (Talk) 12:53, September 12, 2017 (UTC) I think it would be called if the staff can "modernize" them in some way. Of course, they are different from message walls, but I think like in Wikipedia, the subject/headline should be in a separate field and signatures should be automatically be placed (I know there's a script for that, though).

Also, I think the experimental design is gonna remove Talk pages along with many other features (sadly), like the bottom category module, the Explore tab (why that?), userpages along with message walls and several other features.