User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-2179868-20111007214605/@comment-10532749-20111007232435

but it is it still is, but if it wasn't but was better, why would that be a bad change? ? you mean less customization? yes, but the benefit is consistency same as above the word "archive" used in description just means pagination there are talks about implementing "true" archive ala GMail inbox vs All messages if by archives you mean paginated content - this is not true if by archives you mean old user talk pages - there is a reason for that, there should be one good way of doing stuff (in this case - communicate with others), instead of two this is heavily discussed internally it does allow it somewhat - Users that the Wall belongs to can clear it too, not only admins
 * 1) Four words: "If it ain't broke..."
 * 1) it ain't mediawiki anymore
 * 1) harder to format
 * 1) takes away freedom of formatting your talk page like you want
 * 1) doesn't let us archive when we want
 * 1) doesn't let anyone other than admins edit archives.
 * 1) doesn't let normal users revert spam on talk pages.