Bleh
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It's awful. Totnesmartin (talk) 18:55, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
and it signs the sig twice.
This is shit.new threads are supposed to at the bottom aren't they? Is this going to be spread across all of RW? Totnesmartin (talk) 18:56, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
Having to remember to sign posts in some places but not others is going to create a mess.
You can alter the listing order from the top of the page. You can select newest replies at the top or first posted at the top. It's added functionality but since you're either not used to it or unaware of it, you'll assume it's just shit.
I'm just wondering if I'm the only person who assessed the functionality of this before passing comment... yes, it's fugly, I'll agree every day of the week. But when I first started reading Wiki talk pages after years of using bulletin boards I had no clue as to what was happening. You had to invent an entire new piece of etiquette about indents and replying just to make it work. This automates and controls that with specific replies and notifications. The internet spent the best part of a decade working out how best to set up a forum system and it came up with something exactly like this - it's only on Media Wiki talk pages that you get anything different. So if people complain about this I don't see why they don't head over to every other forum on the internet and complain there too.
It seems to be crashing Opera 10.63 half the time after saving, however. That is a major problem above any visual fuglyness.
Opera crashes from a lot of things (from my experience, it's an unstable pile of crap, at least the linux version), it's not necessarily lqt's fault. Then again, sometimes you can't see your newly posted comment, maybe that's related. Oh btw, https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions and select LiquidThreads from the list
Opera isn't that unstable, it just doesn't like things that are a little experimental. Often websites prefer to ban that browser than, you know, check their site actually works... but anyway.
I can't seem to consistently find what is the problem. It might be if it's trying to automatically update and reload the thread. If I can figure out the exact issue, I'll report it properly. As you can probably tell, I'm not the sort of person to just say "it don't work gud" and assume tech support can fix it like magic. I've been on the receiving end of generic complaints enough to find that isn't going to help at all.
Yes, the battleship grey is ugly. I'll do something about it. But I have a million more important things to do right now. So if you want to do something about it rather than just complain (this isn't directed at you, Armondikov), right-click, inspect element, and play with it.
You get a warning if you type four tildes. The text is cut off, but I think I fixed that, although it's still broken for me.
I never got any warnings. (EDIT:nor for this) Totnesmartin (talk) 19:18, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
