On Tuesday, July 22, 2014, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > Chris Steipp wrote: > >I think this should be managed similar to https-- a site preference, > >and users can override the site config with a user preference. > > Please no. There's been a dedicated effort in 2014 to reduce the number > of user preferences. They're costly to maintain and they typically > indicate a design flaw: software should be sensible by default and a user > preference should only be a tool of last resort. The general issue of user > preferences-creep remains particularly acute as global (across a wikifarm) > user preferences still do not exist. Of course in this specific case, > given the relationship with CentralAuth, you probably could actually have > a wikifarm-wide user preference, but that really misses the larger point > that user preferences should be avoided, if at all possible. > > I'll start a new thread about my broader thoughts here. >
I think we have too many preferences also, no disagreement there. But like Risker, I too want to always destroy all my sessions when I logout (mostly because I log in and out of accounts a lot while testing, and I like knowing that applies to all the browsers I have open). So I'm biased towards thinking this is preference worthy, but I do think it's one of those things that if it doesn't behave as a user expects, they're going to think it's a flaw in the software and file a bug to change it. I'm totally willing to admit the expectations I have are going to be the minority opinion. If it's a very, very small number of us, then yeah, preference isn't needed, and we can probably get by with a gadget. Your proposal for account info and session management is good too. I hope someone's willing to pick that up. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > 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
