Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Existing pages and FLOW/reply (5)

I don't think "higher-volume pages" were what the IP editor had in mind.

Considering article talk pages, they are one of the most important sources to verify validity of articles for me. If there were any controversial statements in the past, talk pages allow me to quickly identify those and be cautious about those parts of the article.

Talk pages of articles are also a quick way to get an overview of an articles history. What was changed for what reasons? What was missing and what was left out on purpose?

Archiving is actually bad in that this information is more or less lost (or would you dig into archives when quickly scanning an article?). Splitting the old and the new talk page is some sort of history split.

I admit that I can't think of a workable solution of this problem though with the current design of Flow you're intending. And I doubt you liked the design proposals I could think of which would not exhibit these problems...