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.
>
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