Is there any point in this interface?
The point of making each comment separate is to avoid edit conflicts and the massive overhead in storage requirements (guess why our database is 20 gigs but compresses to just 5). And I don't get this whole "OMGZ it doesn't use MW syntax stuff".
- What is this then?
If you put the same amount of text in a regular talk page here, say the Saloon Bar, and converted it into LQT threads, how much less space would it take up?
That's not how it works. (It would take up a bit more space actually, because of the overhead of having every comment as a separate page)
The problem is that when you edit the saloon bar to add, say, a 100 byte comment, what's saved into the database is the full page, which is usually above 30 kilobytes. Each edit you make to the saloon bar, even if it's just fixing a typo, adds a lot of redundant data to the database.
I know it uses MW syntax, my point is that it completely changes the method of editing discussion threads.
The current method is used on every wiki that exists at the moment, and the number of pages where it causes a problem is negligible.
TBH, this entire system is silly. If you want a forum, you know where to get it. Trying a hack to turn MediaWiki into forum software is trying to make it do something it was never intended to do.
It was never intended to do what we do with the Saloon bar either.
Personally, I think that would be the best idea. You've made this look much better than it originally did, and I can see it being useful once some of the oddities have been ironed out, but there's only so much you can do with it and forums ain't it.
Might be worth a look.