Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Discussion about Flow on EN Wikipedia

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From Flow Portal:

"At first glance, Flow is a next generation discussion system - but that is only one part of it. Flow is actually a rethinking of how we do collaborative work in the projects."

This whole thing worries me. Granted: The current talkpages with complex wiki-markup are very different from many other such systems on the web. However it is also something that I think is a deep-rooted part of Wikipedia culture. Yes, it has it's flaws, but editors in most cases find ways to work around those flaws. I fear that this change will alter the Wikipedia experience completely. I can only hope that the ultimate goal isn't to turn Wikipedia into Facebook. But, well, maybe that's just me and I already got too used to it and imagine an all too dark scenario....