Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Warning levels detection/reply (15)

Reply to Risker, quoting in places:


 * Okay, I'm going to stop you right there, because this theme that the WMF should be creating software intended to be used on "thousands of wikis" keeps cropping up. I thought we all just went through this narrowing focus exercise, didn't we?

There are still around 800+ wikis underneath the Foundation's umbrella. It is not "thousands" but it's still quite a large number, and I do not believe that our "narrowing focus" exercise does not absolve us from supporting them. It is actually easier to make the software customizable for every wiki than to build for 800 disparate instances.


 * Why are we spending our donor dollars creating software that is being genericized instead of customized for our projects?

That's the point: we are spending donor dollars to ensure that the software is customizable for our projects.


 * I hold Jorm in the highest respect

Thanks!

, but this is fancy software for the high-speed Western world. Visually, it looks like a cross between LiquidThreads and Facebook, the former being unscaleable and widely disliked software, and the latter now slowly morphing into Myspace.


 * I do not understand how the driving rationales have brought us to the point where users are supposed to sort through a pile of mixed threads on their "board" rather than selectively reviewing things through their watchlist.

I've heard you say something like this before and I thought I had cleared it up, but the fact is that what I think you are afraid of simply isn't true. In fact, in the first planned rev of the feature, it is assumed that you will continue to utilize your watchlist to follow topics and pages.

The inclusion of a "feed" view is an additional feature - it's simply a way for you to view all discussion activity in situ without resorting to the watchlist and being forced to open a gazillion tabs to keep up with things.