User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-1280533-20110926195645/@comment-1656630-20110926211704

One of the major flaws of Article Comments is that in order to enable them, you need to permanently hide all Talk Pages (and vice versa, if you switch back). We're approaching this differently so no data is ever lost.

Several people have asked about the ability to put new messages at the bottom, but I don't think it would work with a system that has automatic pagination. Seems like it would be confusing. Open to more thoughts on it if you disagree. (Customization options is still an open question.)

Letting people customize signatures in this system is also an interesting idea, though i suspect it brings up other complications. Will add the idea to our lists of things to consider further.

"Messages" as a name is also an interesting idea. One concern is that it not everyone expects something called "messages" to be in public view, but a "wall" is clearly public to people. Interested in more of your thoughts on these points -- thanks!