User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-1025281-20110928124310/@comment-1025281-20110928131447

I have addressed the problem of navigation across user talk pages. Across Wikia, we can't agree on whether replies should be on the other user's talk page, or whether the entire conversation should stay in the same place. The result is that at the moment, people either forget that their message has been replied to, or we get an very difficult-to-read conversation because it is split between two pages. It's not conducive to efficiency on one hand, or transparency on the other.

As for finding threads on an individual talk page &mdash; that's a problem of implementation, not of concept.

Flashy signatures certainly won't disappear, but there will be less of an incentive to spend time on them, and there will be fewer situations where I will have to tolerate them. Our project talk pages and forums are used in discussion far less than the dominant user talk namespace, reducing the amount of times people will need to sign, and thus reducing how much they would care for what their signature looks like.