Talk:LiquidThreads 3.0/archive 1

See also Extension talk:LiquidThreads.

Keep refactoring possible

 * ''See also Tracking bug, Thread:Talk:LiquidThreads/Redesign/Summaries, Thread:Talk:LiquidThreads/Redesign/Discussion status, "No way to multi-home a thread" [early discussion got lost somewhere, probably http://liquidthreads.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback ], LackOfReworking, w:en:Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages

Make a page of threads totally editable
Major feature request: make LT totally editable. That is, allow any user to edit all aspects of parts of a talkpage - node indentation (what it replies to), merging of two nodes, merging of two threads, &c.

These have obvious everyday uses:
 * editing indentation: a comment is made "in reply to" one node, but should really be replying to something one level up; or two comment threads are merge in a refactoring
 * editing thread: three threads are about the same topic, in a confusing way. The whole thread-collection needs to be refactored under a parent level-1 thread.

Without this, LT and the current mechanism for summaries has limited use for large wikis -- refactoring is important for larger discussions. Sj 19:33, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I strongly agree. This is one aspect of liquidthreads being splitted on so many pages with weird relationships instead of a single page you can easily edit seeing or changing everything. Nemo 20:51, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Make all comments editable by everyone

 * ''See also Thread:Extension talk:LiquidThreads/Redesign/Is it really necessary to allow users to edit each other's posts?

Comments should be editable by everyone - or at least by all logged-in users.

Perhaps this can be its own separate right, one that individual mediawiki installations can set for themselves -- but for WMF wikis it should be available to all contributors.

It is frequent that one person needs to tweak someone else's comment; this should not be any more difficult than it is in the current LQT. Sj 20:17, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Linear threads
I realize that the "threaded" style, where replies are indented, is something of an established tradition on wikis now, but it seems to me that is due to the lack of any sort of graphical separation between posts more than a desire for the threaded style itself. Looking over some recent comments on en.wikipedia with reactions to LiquidThreads it seems to me that one of the main criticisms is that we're forced to view threads using the "threaded" style. On phpBB and vBulletin there's an option to view threads in "linear" or "flat" mode, so that they're not indented. I think that using that sort of display mode as an option, or even as the default, would go a long way in curtaining criticism of LiquidThreads. Regards, — V = IR (Talk&thinsp;&bull;&thinsp;Contribs) 15:32, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree that it is good idea to have a linear mode as an option, but I'm not sure whether it should be the default or not. Helder 17:08, 22 July 2011 (UTC)