User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Followed pages - a new way to stay up-to-date on your favorite wiki pages/@comment-429401-20100505235930

AS others have said an attempt to fix somthing that was not broken IMO. The watch list was a usefull feature to me, for monitoring page changes. Broadcasting what you are whatching is not in my opinion.

A more useful use would be to aggregate the watch list from across all a users wikis when at central.

Can the email system cope with the 10,000 + pages in my watch list as Slicer says if some one decided to start changing loads of them maliciously ? & would my inbox cope. the current Email watchlist digest lists the same pages every week !!

The update to the new image pop up is one fix i'm in approval of, as the inability to get to the source was a major issue, as i frequently click images to see the copyright info (or lack of on a lot of smaller wikis). Perhaps selecting one should be made Madatory !!!

Think the Star symbols completely wrong for this, the old binoculars and watch list was fine and why make the tile longer (resulting in wrapping of tabs at some screen sizes and on the preferences page). Ok just thought of a couple of minor advantages, one is the splitting into grouping (typse) of the data and the other the number of pages of each type watched being summarized.