User blog comment:Dopp/Giving User Profiles Some Love/@comment-1091639-20110707111923/@comment-1091639-20110707165812

I found user comments really beneficial and helpful on one of my wikis. I really doubt these users would use the talk pages to report the same issues they did in the comments. This should obviously not be mandatory - by admins choice, depending on the nature of a wiki. I for one would like comments enabled on user pages on some of the wikis I edit.

All the arguments in the above comments have been used before the comments extension was implemented and yet it proved to be very useful for some wikis - fanon wikis in particular, so I still don't consider them a bad idea. Especially if they were optional.

Watch-lists and Following isn't as straightforward as a to-do list I have in mind. Besides, you might mark a page to follow, but you might forget what you wanted to update on it..

And yes, I also love the default MediaWiki settings, layouts and functionalities, but Wikia will be doing changes, regardless if we love it or hate it, so we might as well go with the flow and try to propose something constructive.