Board Thread:New Features/@comment-93604-20151101132043

I haven't posted here in awhile. I started a long message in the "Start a Discussion" form at the top.

I added a topic for my message in the "Topic" section at the bottom.

I clicked preview, and nothing at all happened. I clicked post, and nothing happened. I turned off addons on Firefox and tried again. Nothing. I tried Internet Explorer and Chrome and got the same results.

I was about to give up, and then noticed a third form in the middle. I tried putting my message there, and posting. I was told I needed a title. I had thought I had added a topic at the bottom.

But no, it wanted a title in the form at the top that was called "Start a Discussion".

No offense, but MediaWiki developers at both Wikimedia and Wikia are sometimes clueless about the user experience.

The number of active editors at Wikipedia (5 edits per month or more) has started going down again, after a short period of stability. See timeline graph:
 * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Active_editors_on_English_Wikipedia_over_time.png

I have pointed out some flaws and annoyances in the user experience, via some messages in Mediawiki Phabricator. Hopefully, someone will pay attention. Though I do not have high hopes judging from past experience.  