Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Warning levels detection/reply (4)

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? Where it was determined that the WMF would support the WMF movement? Why are we spending our donor dollars creating software that is being genericized instead of customized for our projects?

I hold Jorm in the highest respect, 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 can see lots of features here that would be useful, but I'm really not seeing any rationale for creating this mélange of topics in one place. I don't think anyone asked for that as a design principle, did they?