Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Interactive Prototype/I liked it a lot - here's why

Some of the previous comments have mentioned that the majority of the comments have been critical of Flow. I, however, like it a lot. Perhaps it's because I tried to follow along with the development of Flow and with Jorm's thoughts on this and other subjects, but there are also other reasons:
 * I much prefer that you won't have to click "edit" to start editing but simply place the cursor in the right place and start typing
 * after clicking "save", Flow seems to work the way most normal systems do, with not reloading the page and you having to scroll down to the right place, but rather stay on the right comment
 * I think the thing about not having to sign your comments is long overdue and will significantly improve life on the wikis I am active on. On Swedish Wikipedia our Report an error page, and newcomers' talk pages are full with comments about their forgetting to sign
 * it seems to be very much easier to teach to new editors; something that I do a lot
 * automatic indentation is one of the good things about Liquid Threads, and it is good to see it included here. So many people get it wrong in the present wikitext system
 * the "unsubscribe from topic" and other topic choices make Flow look like something that I want to work with. There are so many topics that start out promising but then go on forever, and these type of choices make that easier to deal with, rather than having to unwatch the whole talk page/Wikipedia page
 * the left hand arrow that allows you to minimize or maximize a topic is better than what we have now, where you can scroll through the same things over and over (I trust that the choice for the topic will be remembered?)
 * the "working" image (the W logo being drawn) is beautiful
 * I like being able to mark pages as read. Not enough systems have that option
 * the box with the profile page, archived talk, etc is very good to have on top, instead of to the left. It make those tools easier to find

To couter some of the criticism about Flow taking too much space for each comment, I don't really think that is going to be an issue. I've seen Jorm working and I am confident that this is something he will work on, and get others to help. Perhaps a system with the user name to the left and the comment to the right.

I would ask for a way to "favorite" a topic, to keep it near the top of the page.

All in all, an improvement that I look forward to seeing deployed. Thanks for your work.