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It's awful. Totnesmartin (talk) 18:55, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

    Totnesmartin (talk)18:55, 21 November 2010

    and it signs the sig twice.

      Totnesmartin (talk)18:55, 21 November 2010

      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)

        Totnesmartin (talk)18:56, 21 November 2010

        Going by the heavy opposition here, I am inclined to doubt it.

          Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX18:57, 21 November 2010

          Having to remember to sign posts in some places but not others is going to create a mess.

            Totnesmartin (talk)19:04, 21 November 2010
             

            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.

              Scarlet A.pngtheist21:05, 21 November 2010

              Hey, I didn't know about that. Cool.

                -- Nx / talk21:07, 21 November 2010

                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.

                  Scarlet A.pngtheist21:11, 21 November 2010

                  It seems to be crashing Opera 10.63 half the time after saving, however. That is a major problem above any visual fuglyness.

                    Scarlet A.pngtheist21:12, 21 November 2010

                    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

                      -- Nx / talk21:18, 21 November 2010

                      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.

                        Scarlet A.pngtheist21:43, 21 November 2010

                        Well yeah, but a decent browser shouldn't be crashing because some website has broken javascript.

                          -- Nx / talk21:47, 21 November 2010

                          Yeah, but sites shouldn't have piece-of-shit javascript.

                          Anyway, it's stopped it now so it might have been a background window being a dick.

                            Scarlet A.pngtheist21:52, 21 November 2010

                            Postel's Law: be conservative in what you produce, and liberal in what you accept from others. Opera isn't exempt.

                              Wisest time Phantom Hoover!22:06, 21 November 2010

                              I'd just rather use IE 5 than start worshiping at the Church of Firefox.

                                Scarlet A.pngtheist22:09, 21 November 2010

                                Who's making irrational, kneejerk opinions of something based on no evidence or reason now?

                                  Wisest time Phantom Hoover!22:11, 21 November 2010

                                  Yay, a browser flamewar. Because there wasn't enough DRAMA already

                                    -- Nx / talk22:12, 21 November 2010

                                    I believe you started it when you said Opera was a pile of crap. You have insulted my honour, sir, and I challenge you to a duel.

                                      Scarlet A.pngtheist22:45, 21 November 2010
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       

                                      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.

                                        -- Nx / talk21:23, 21 November 2010

                                        Could do. I can definitely spot some places where it could be streamlined a little, but I'm not sure how much of that would be in the CSS and how much would be in the software itself.

                                          Scarlet A.pngtheist21:44, 21 November 2010
                                           
                                          But when I first started reading Wiki talk pages after years of using bulletin boards I had no clue as to what was happening.

                                          That is why liquid threads was developed, because people new to MediaWiki were unfamiliar with the system and prefered the blog/facebook/BB style thread.

                                            - π22:48, 21 November 2010

                                            I figured that much.

                                            Now if ONLY the Facebook system was this useful...

                                              Scarlet A.pngtheist23:02, 21 November 2010

                                              I have just found that the new message thing Human was complaining about on my talkpage is a much better way of finding replies to your post.

                                              I don't use facebook so I couldn't comment.

                                                - π23:33, 21 November 2010

                                                I'm finding it better than scanning recent changes and hoping I've caught the right one. And the fact it highlights new posts is useful if someone is sending threads off in different directions.

                                                I'm in agreement that this thing is far from finished, but the potential is there and I think the benefits for running better discussions could be had now. It might not be best for the extremely short casual chit-chat of the saloon bar, but for where replies tend to be longer on average (with an increased risk of edit conflicts) and where threads go off on tangents this is a far superior way of doing it.

                                                  Scarlet A.pngtheist23:42, 21 November 2010
                                                   
                                                   
                                                   
                                                   
                                                   
                                                   
                                                   

                                                  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.

                                                    -- Nx / talk19:12, 21 November 2010

                                                    I never got any warnings. (EDIT:nor for this) Totnesmartin (talk) 19:18, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

                                                      Totnesmartin (talk)19:18, 21 November 2010

                                                      File:Lqt_sig_warn.png

                                                        -- Nx / talk19:31, 21 November 2010
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
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