Is there any point in this interface?
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Why not just make it render identically to the current talkpage format? The raw MW format is nicely minimalistic: it keeps things down to the content of the comment, a tag indicating who made the comment, and an indication of its place in the logical flow of the conversation and it was completely compatible with preëxisting MW syntax and interface. This format adds a huge jumble of buttons and lines and blocks of colour to posts, as well as making it impossible to edit anything on the page without hunting down and navigating through a quagmire of UI bloat. And god help you if you want to edit it en masse in a way LT hasn't sanctioned.
Oh, and it hides bits of the conversation by default for no good reason, making it necessary either to continually interrupt your flow of reading, or to rake through your preferences to fix it.
Continuing that theme, it insists on showing only one thread when you follow a link from RC, rather than letting you browse the whole conversation after checking the new post, for no purpose I can make out.
Yes, that part is buggy, sometimes it shows every other thread except the one I clicked on RC.
The "new messages" indicator is also incredibly stupid — even once clicked on, it does not automatically mark the posts as read, but requires that I click a button to say that I have read it. I should hope that I don't need to explain why that's utterly stupid.
Does your email provider/application automatically mark all emails as read as soon as you open your inbox? That would be stupid. What's broken in lqt is that it doesn't mark messages as read when you view them on the page they are on.
No, my email does not do that. That is because when I open my inbox I can't read the messages without clicking on them. I can read the new messages when I click the "new messages" link, so not marking them as read is stupid.
Imagine this scenario: You open Special:Newmessages, start reading them, and then halfway through you have to go somewhere so you shut down your computer. You come back later but the messages you didn't get to yet have also been marked as read, so good luck finding them again.
