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• On topic pages, the new watch star has issues.
  • The star is misplaced, shifted down and crossing the header line. (Firefox 31, Windows 7, Vector)
  • When you click the top star, you get the "You're subscribed to this Flow board! You will be automatically subscribed to all new topics created on this board." (board) message instead of the "This topic has been added to your watchlist. You will receive notifications on all activities on this topic." (topic) message.
  • There are multiple stars very close to each other. Removing the top star would stop its issues, but removing the bottom star would keep consistency with other pages.
  • When you click one star, the other doesn't update.
• It is misplaced in Monobook and doesn't show up at all in Modern or Cologne Blue as far as I can tell.
• Its hover color is inconsistent with any other MediaWiki UI colors, and is too low contrast, especially against the grey of topic headers.

PS: Why is Flow not using the standard watch button any more? This is annoyingly inconsistent with all other pages.

Yes, the star at the top shouldn't appear on Topic pages; that's a bug. The fix should be released next week.

We're not using the standard watch button on Flow boards to signal that the interaction is actually different than putting a wiki page on your watchlist.

Watching a Flow board means that you're subscribed to new topics created on the page (or it will mean that, in the next release). You don't necessarily get notifications for all of the existing topics on the board, so it's not quite the same thing as watching a page.

That being said -- this is a new element, and we're trying it out to see if it makes sense and feels useful for people. We went back and forth on it for a while, before we landed on trying this version out.

Here's the bug ticket for taking the star off of Topic pages: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69764

Aw great - because I unstarred tone of them...

The star also overlaps with long titles. This shows an issue with having it in the title bar instead of the header.

Ah, thanks for catching that. I made a bug ticket for the Flow team backlog: https://trello.com/c/79wZHihV