User blog comment:Jenburton/Coming Soon: Message Wall in Labs/@comment-1997905-20111024233811/@comment-1724320-20111025004714

Dopp, that's really not at all what either of us are saying. I can't speak for Moncho, but you really have not solved the job queue problem. The last I heard on that issue was that you would make it so that renamed users' walls would not follow them, fixing the moves. However, deletions are even more common, and I have not seen anything that makes me think it's been solved. I hope there's something I haven't heard yet.

For me this has never been about preference of philosophy, but about technical problems. I really don't think I'm alone in thinking that this is unacceptable for any wiki that cares about organization and being neat.

Another specific technical concern is being unable to bot-edit these comments. It just can't be done, and it needs to be. I still have not seen anything on anon notifications since this first went out a month ago.

If you're looking for more...
 * I could not find a way to view the source of a message. If in fact there is no way to do that, there should be.
 * Deletion is a mess. Not only can you not leave a summary, but I do not believe you can even view messages previously deleted from your wall. I'm not even sure if sysops can do that, because it just redirects seamlessly to the current wall. I know that Message Wall is not completed in RecentChanges yet, but if it's anything like blogs or article comments, deleting one root conversation with 50 replies will fill up RecentChanges. It's not quite a big enough number to cause a problem with the job queue, but if this architecture gets ported to other namespace talks, it certainly will be. Also, am I the only one who thinks it looks a little weird to have non-sysops in the deletion log?
 * Who can actually edit messages? The person whose wall it is on doesn't seem to be able to. That leaves it to the message creator, and sysops. Coupled with AWB not working on the wall, it will be a nightmare for maintenance, whether it's fixing signatures or links or something else.
 * I was unable to leave messages for unregistered users, as were two other people I asked. I guess that's one way to make sure anons don't miss a message, but is that really intentional?
 * Aren't the pagenames (Message Wall Message:Cook Me Plox/@comment-Cook Me Plox-20111012053214/@comment-Cook Me Plox-20111012053228) long enough without having a super long namespace on top of it?