Thread:User talk:Nx/Reality check/reply (11)

You're mischaracterizing my opposition, which is nothing new here. After all, I'm disagreeing with you so it must be something stupid and resistant to change, right?

In this case I'm talking about the "new messages" thing. If I recall correctly, there was talk about expanding the use of this throughout the wiki, presumably on all talk pages. That means that unless everyone shuts off the "follow pages I post on" option (which is currently very useful and in fact recommended), every time they log in they'll get dozens if not hundreds of new messages (depending on how often they log in), and have to plow through all that to get to the relevant ones. As opposed to, say, going to their watchlist and checking out to see if there are updates in what interests them most.

If nothing else, that aspect is likely to be a bit intimidating/offputting in general use.