Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-24155515-20141029204325

Note: This kinda turned long and almost into a letter of sorts, but I felt I needed to spit out all the issues. Meh.

I don't know what has been updated (or has been experiencing issues if it's not an update) in the last day, but whatever it is has broken all form of threaded communication (sans "classic-style" talk pages) in Monobook. I cannot see comments on articles (and seeing as I'm the most active/only active admin at the wiki I spend the most time with, that is a problem for both responding to issues and moderation, as I cannot delete or respond to things I can't see). Further, in places like walls and forums that use forms like this one, it does not expand and therefore does not allow access to the posting buttons.

I can't use the default skin for sustained amounts of time because it causes heavy performance issues on this machine (and no, we can't figure out why) in addition to intermittent neurological issues that don't always handle Oasis well. So if I need Oasis for something, I generally switch temporarily via URL JavaScript (?useskin=oasis), which apparently doesn't work even with the & separator in a URL that's attempting to reference a comment.

If this is a permanent update (and not a temporary issue with something), that really sucks, because if I can't use Monobook, the aforementioned performance issues preclude my using Wikia at all, which means the wiki I'm at goes without an active admin until someone else has the time to come back. In theory, I guess I could switch off the threaded features, but I'm not a fan of doing that without consensus, which would need to be gathered through a threaded format I can't access. If the issues being hit are something that can be remedied through JS or CSS, I'd love to take that option instead of any which would be a net negative to the wiki and further collaboration within it. Thanks.  