On 9 September 2014 10:45, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:22 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Those of us who presently use talk pages to get the work done. What is >> going to make us *love* Flow, for all its imperfections, and demand to >> have it for ourselves? What's Flow's killer feature for us? > First, on the subject of "kiler features", generally - we can make > educated guesses, but with software that's used by communities, you > really need to experiment and iterate. > We guessed that mentions would > become popular, but their use has exceeded our wildest expectations. > Go to any high traffic talk page and you'll see Echo pings all over > the place. A feature that didn't exist before 2013 and that nobody, as > far as I know, ever asked for (!) before we built it. And yet it's > become indispensable. Yes, I see what you mean. > If you want to go nuts, you could build a Flow<->mailing list or > Flow<->NNTP (oldschool!) gateway. If we do our API homework, I mean > literally "you" because we're sure as hell not going to do it anytime > soon ;-) This is tangential, but caught my eye. I've rambled before about how (I think) the unit of a forum is the thread, but the unit of email/NNTP is the individual message; and gateways between the two suffer from this fundamental difference: http://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/566555.html So do you expect the unit (in this sense) of Flow will be the message or the thread? Or both, or either? (Wiki talk pages don't have a unit really, which is their blessing for flexibility and curse for usability.) - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
