User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-1656630-20110926232610/@comment-1373334-20110927013141

"We want ... the continuation of a space for experienced wiki editors to have conversations about wiki issues..."

Then you are failing. You are ruining valid, tested tools that experienced users require. I need the ability to reach out to a specific user. I require notification when anyone is talking to me (as my talk page should be. I don't know where this "limit your notifications to just the conversations you’re involved in" is coming from. It's my talk page - I should be involved. Again, this is a horrendous idea. If you do this, you are directly removing yet another tool that makes this a wiki and not a social network. For the sake of just once giving something to your experienced users who have been loyal through all these horrendous anti-wiki changes (new editor, redesigns, menu changing and limitations, the-removal-of-source-code-editing-as-the-base-choice-even-though-this-is-a-f'n-wiki, etc.), give us a bone for once.

Seriously, I can't stress this enough. You are turning away your experienced users (a group that gets noticeably smaller after every "great new tool."