User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-655-20110927150758

There would have been a much simpler solution to all of these perceived problems: support users in turning their talk page into a forum. If the already existing forum extension simply came pre-installed on every user talk page of a new wiki, and you just spent (much less) time on developing a proper notification system, every one of the "problems" cited above would have been solved.

Without having pages that deliberately are "not wiki pages" (as if that's a good thing). Without having individual wiki pages with cryptic names for every single addition to a discussion (as is already the case with article comments). Without losing manual and full control over what is archived, and how. Without losing full editability.

Actually, I think I will spend some time to implement this "user talk forum" - which, if you really turn off proper talk pages, could be used in "User:" space anyway. Anyone interested in that?