User blog comment:Dopp/Message Wall Now Available in Labs/@comment-1724320-20120126222050

I don't really have a problem with trying to make user talk pages easier to use, but this is still incredibly buggy or maybe just not very well thought-out. In all, we ballooned from one namespace to four, when I don't really see why more than one was needed.
 * Namespaces
 * There are now three namespaces related to Message Walls, or four if you include the antiquated "User talk" that is sort of like an alias but still counts as a namespace.
 * The Message Wall namespace (1200) is used to draw all of the different threads together, but has no text of its own and I'm not really sure how it works.
 * "Thread", ID 1201, is confusing because on Special:AllPages, it's also referred to as "Message Wall". It's used for the numeric thread pages like Thread:350913 that also don't have any text of their own, just like namespace 1200. But it's also where the meat of the Message Wall happens, where the comment pages like this are stored. I don't really understand why it's a good idea to have a dual usage for the Thread namespace like that if you can't also put the other related namespaces together.
 * The one I really don't get is "Message Wall Greeting", namespace 1202. An entire namespace on a wiki just for the thing at the top of your talk page? Why couldn't that have just been a subpage of "Message Wall:" like the archived talk pages were?
 * Notifications
 * I’m an admin here, but do I really need to get a notification every time someone decides to remove a message from their wall? On popular social wikis that could end up being a nightmare for a sysop trying to wade their way through all of the notifications they get. Perhaps an opt-out in preferences?
 * I’m still disappointed that they didn’t find a way to fit in anon notifications with all of this, even if it’s just the old standard new message bubble that’s already on Oasis. I can’t imagine how any wiki with vandalism problems can embrace this product if it completely prevents them from warning vandals.
 * Is it possible to let us see old notifications?
 * Other bugs/problems
 * Not a big deal, but in Monobook it gives me the option to notify an admin even though I am an admin.
 * For some reason the first two buttons in my Wikia toolbar switch places when I view a Message Wall or Thread.
 * When you click on an individual comment likethis, it takes you not to the actual page for that comment, not even to the thread number. It takes you to a link like this, that does nothing but go to the base page of the user’s Message Wall. At the very least make sure that it goes to the Thread page.
 * Viewing diffs of the comments is buggy. The interface has two search buttons, and clicking edit or rollback or undo don’t work (they take you back to the base Message Wall page). The history is also similarly messed up.

Those are the problems I’ve encountered from playing with it for half an hour. Message Wall has some potential, but it’s got a really long way to go before I can possibly consider using it on my home wiki.