Thread:Feedback/Some feedback/Werdna

> Comments take up an awful lot more space than on a standard wiki page. I think signatures should default to being displayed directly after the comment, with no line break. There's also a lot of white space between comments that could be tightened up.

I've had this feedback elsewhere, but I'm still thinking about it.

> New replies to the same message appear above older ones, rather than below. That seems contrary to the way wiki discussions (and even forums) normally work. Was this intentional? It feels confusing.

Definitely not intended, but it doesn't seem to be happening for me. Maybe I should put some forcing in to be sure.

> I keep seeing the "you have new messages" notification, no matter how many times I've clicked it and read my messages. That notification message should be cleared once the "new messages" page is viewed, similar to the way the standard mediawiki "new message notification" is cleared for messages left on one's talk page, once the page is merely viewed. I understand there's the "mark as read" button, but that doesn't seem intuitive enough here.

I can't tell if you're reporting a bug or a usability issue here.
 * I think that the "mark all as read" button is good enough, and I think it's a feature to be able to leave messages as unread if you still want to do something with them. In general I disapprove of a "view" type action having consequences.
 * If there's a bug whereby the "You have new messages" is sticking around despite marking messages as read, then I want to know more about it.

> The ability to edit other people's comments feels odd. I'm not saying that shouldn't be allowed necessarily, as it always was on wiki pages. The thing is, everyone who is used to wikis and forums knows what to expect of each. In forums, we expect only the posting user and the admin to have the ability to edit their posts. On wiki pages, we know anyone can edit everything. Here we have something that looks like forum postings, yet everyone can edit everything. More so than on wiki pages, the editing of others' comments is much more convincing. Perhaps some small disclaimers strategically placed in the interface might address this, but I'm open to other suggestions. I did notice, by the way, the "this message has been edited by other users" message, but that doesn't seem like enough.

The feedback I've received has been that this should be less prominent, not more prominent.