User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-31984232-20200526195631/@comment-24155515-20200528230236

For what it's worth regarding your talk page gripes:


 * 1) Highly unlikely to occur unless that specific non-main-namespace of a fandom-type wiki is more active than most of Wikipedia
 * 2) You do get notified if your user talk page is edited. It's an overall edit notifier, but you do in fact get one. It's just either an orange hatnote or maybe a lower-right note (I don't remember if both are coded to happen on Wikia or one or the other) and not a bell/envelope thing. You don't get notified if someone replies to you on another page, though (unless, in the case of UCP wikis, they could have pinging enabled as enwikipedia does, which means someone could notify you by including a link to your user page in their message, otherwise you'd only know if you had the page on your watchlist and were monitoring it for changes).
 * 3) Like number 1, very unlikely in most cases (though not unheard of). But semi-protection (employed if it's a severe problem where the users are hard to block for some reason) would keep all but the newest users still able to message you, I believe?
 * 4) True, but this is why archival and/or removing actioned/old threads is a thing. Logically, though, as long as you have more than two sections on your talk page, you shouldn't have to scroll through tons even then because TOC is a thing.