Topic on Talk:Structured Discussions

(1) The fastest way to figure out what is or was discussed on a Flow talk page is apparently the "history", why no traditional ToC? I seriously dislike (apparently) endless scroll down interfaces, it's time wasting and expensive (= can cost real money with some mobile broadband plans.)

(2) A link to mw:Topic:S4wsju7dgqc521zu from elsewhere, e.g., Meta, is not exactly obvious, why no traditional subjects with an (n) counter for collisions? That's something Windows users would know.

(1) Table of Contents is coming, see Flow/Table of Contents spec.

(2) It's a fundamental architectural decision. You are creating a unique item in a cross-wiki database. A look-up table or aliasing would affect performance. IMO we could provide the wiki markup as well, similar but better than LiquidThread's "More > Link to" choice of URL and wikitext.

Regarding (2), database architectures only require that an index value be unique. Two_observations_[iterated counter] would be a unique value. Any such string would be a unique value, and would be much more human-friendly than the current opaque GUID scheme.