Hoi, While some may think it perfectly ok to be contrary and argue vehemently to keep old hat technology operational for them and everyone around them, I wonder if they consider cost and consequences. * Cost to maintain duplicate and increasingly feature incompatible functionality * Cost to the users who are appalled by the archaic software they have to suffer * Cost to the increased problem of recruiting new contributors.
When I read what is said, it gives me a really bad impression of what "community" means. It is a priori not positive at all when you argue for a blanket switch to disable new features. I find it impossible to argue to our donors that the additional money spend in keeping ancient software alive is well spend. Thanks, Gerard On 6 June 2014 01:24, Juergen Fenn <schneeschme...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 2014-06-06 0:16 GMT+02:00 Danny Horn <dh...@wikimedia.org>: > > The Flow team is going to work in a few weeks on automatically archiving > > talk pages, so that we can enable Flow on pages where there are already > > existing conversations. Basically, this means moving the old discussions > on > > an archive page, and leaving a link for "See archived talk page" visible > on > > the new Flow board. > > > > That means there'll be a minute where a currently active discussion would > > get interrupted, and have to be restarted on the new Flow board. That > will > > be a pain, but it would only be a one-time inconvenience during that > > transition moment. > > Interesting point. Thanks for keeping us up to date. You might like to > know, though, that on German Wikipedia most discussions about Flow > seem to focus on how to turn it off or how to keep it out of the > project altogether. Switching to Flow would require a community > consensus anyway. So could you please consider a global switch for > communities that would rather like to disable these new features > completely. > > Regards, > Jürgen. > > PS. We have never enabled the LiquidThreads extension neither. And the > new Beta link up right did not stay there for long. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l