Message Wall Greeting:.Seshat.

Welcome to my talk page.

...There are reasons I avoid messaging people on wikis where Message Wall is turned on. It's awkward. I can't make heads or tails of how to read the Wiki Activity pages. Message Wall uses a person's "aka" name rather than their screen name, and, since I already have problems reading the Wiki Activity page as it is, I tend to realize too late that the two "different" names I'm reading are the same person.

This was a bad move, Wikia. If you're going to change the way we message one another this drastically, you should have spent more time studying how e-mail providers get their users ready for change. By giving individual users their own, individual talk pages, you were basically providing a messaging service; no sane messaging service provider changes the way people talk to one another when dedicated users have spent years getting used to a system. They give them face lifts, they add new features, they find ways to make it easier to use (maybe by cutting out a few unnecessary buttons that might confuse people), but they do not completely redesign it. It is a bad move, and I expected more from a "professional" company.

And I don't want to hear any "you're using this site for free" crap; I use AOL for free, and they are still professional enough to not do anything like this to me.

This is a downgrade, plain and simple. This is how lazy people "chat" and "text" one another. This is how sites lose dedicated, hard-working users who have volunteered hours of their lives to increase your revenue and make it so you can afford to waste your time thinking up crap like this.

Way to cater to the flighty, chatty, annoying, 12-and-under-year-old masses (who, by the way, cannot legally contribute here), and thank you for making it so I'm reluctant to go to Community Central for help.

Anyway, welcome to my Talk Page. Don't expect me to put any real effort into responding to any messages I get through here.