Thread:Feedback/Some things I don't like


 * 1) Newer comments go first by default (although the option to change this is awesome, the default is the opposite of every wiki talkpage I ever used).
 * 2) Navigating away from a page your editing loses what you wrote so far. It doesn't even take you back to the edit screen. I typed this in Notepad because I don't trust this site after having to type this all twice. This is a very important function as I go back and forth from edit screens all the time. (I'm used to clicking back from preview/diff or to see the current version again while editing, sometimes I follow other links temporarily for various reasons or even restart my browser that's normally set to save forms.) Appears to be fixed! -71.155.241.132 (same person that originally wrote this) 22:45, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) Assumes useragent is javascript-capable and that it's enabled and/or desired.
 * 4) Way too resource-heavy. Long pages take forever to load.
 * 5) On Wikipedia, we show warnings for pages over 32KB (which I think is a bit low, but still).  (yes, we commonly have non-lgt pages get that long) is almost a MB and takes over 10 seconds to load in a modern browser, site cached, over a broadband connection. The total cost of resources is 3.59MB for one page!
 * 6) Discussions are split up over multiple "pages" (in quotes because it's really the all the same page). There's no "view all" button (probably due to the poor performance).
 * 7) Comments are bloated and take up too much room. Putting the signature on the last line of the comment would help. Reducing the padding would too.
 * 8) TOCs also take up too much room.
 * 9) History log is bloated as well. The standard page history format would be much better with the regular (more-functional) diff links. The time link (lqt_oldid) in the history is not a replacement for diffs and it should work the same as non-lqt page history links, i.e. a plain old premalink (oldid). Furthermore, the way it formats the added content is the same as the summary format, thus confusing.
 * 10) Does not allow for edit summaries (!) Now it does! -71.155.241.132 (same person that originally wrote this) 22:51, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * 11) There's no "Show changes" button.
 * 12) There's no undo/revert button.
 * 13) Closed threads still have a Reply button. While it still should be technically allowed to edit these, a reply button encourages replying to a supposedly closed thread.
 * 14) It's difficult/impossible to create edit links (?action=edit and ?section=new and probably other common ones) and have them always work correctly. Maybe there's some new url parameters that would work but it would be nice to not have that extra complexity.
 * 15) When following a redirect to a talk page, there's no indication that you used one. The is especially confusing when the subject space page is redirected to the talk page. It makes it appear that the Page tab is broken as it doesn't do anything (except change the displayed url which is also confusing).
 * 16) When view a single comment (a "fragment"), the Parent link does nothing. Instead it should be replaced with a Full thread link or something. The small text at the top is easy to miss.
 * 17) When moving comments, it says "Drop here" even when it's not possible.
 * 18) "Summarize" is just confusing.
 * 19) It's unclear how one would change per-page settings such as number of threads per page, archive location, etc. Or maybe these aren't configurable, which is even worse. Adding some parser functions in the header would work I guess but an separate interface would be better.
 * 20) It's too resource heavy (needs repeating as this is a major usability issue).