User blog comment:Jenburton/An Update on Message Wall/@comment-957747-20111001030941

There simply has to be a better way to go about this if this will end up being mandatory. The fact that this system is very similar to the blogging system and article comments is alarming. Those two features are very poorly coded. Each comment requires an entirely new page on the wiki. Not only that, but the URL for these comments are a mile long. Comments on comments are even worse.

A URL resembling http://community.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_blog_comment:Jenburton/An_Update_on_Message_Wall/@comment-Starfleet_Academy-20111001012836/@comment-Anakin_Skyobiliviator-20111001014218&permalink=327910#comm-327910 (3 lines of text in this blog) is never appealing. Recent Changes, with several hundred of these a day, is very difficult to weed through to find actual content.

In the meantime, Article talk and User talk pages only have ONE page. In RecentChanges, if you click Show grouped content, multiple talk page edits are on ONE line. Multiple Blog/Article comments are on MULTIPLE lines. Ever had to move an article with hundreds (thousands) of comments on it? Yeah... you can wait a week before it's done.

I know that chances of moving User talk pages are slim, but it could very well be the bane of vandals that like to move the User page of someone they can't stand to create a huge mess. Also, this would even further complicate users wanting their user name changed that is fairly active in the community and not only has thousands of pages under their user name on one wiki, but on several. Again, while that may be a quick and easy User rename by moving ONE talk page per user being renamed on EACH wiki, it is quite a bit more of an ordeal if that is under this current proposal.

If nothing else, I hope this shines light on another aspect of this feature that may not have been touched on yet.