Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/The whole concept seems to be based on wrong assumptions/reply (5)

I assume you were responding to me (after three whole weeks!)?

Yes, I think talk pages are much more colorful right now. It's the simple things that make the community worthwhile: Welcome messages, customized signatures, smileys, barnstars, a huge amount of templates to choose from for all imaginable use cases, etc, etc. Even a deletion notice template adds something to a talk pages uniqueness.

Threaded discussion as proposed by FLOW strips out most of the personality of talk pages, making every comment look exactly like the previous. This might actually increase efficiency of discussions (in theory) but could be detrimental for the community needs, resulting in people being bored by discussions, therefore even reducing efficiency (in practice).

As to the LiquidThreads part: Yes, this was already made clear three weeks ago. Three weeks ago was also the time when Brandon first visibly announced FLOW yelling out: There will be FLOW, the threaded discussion system of the future!

Back then it was much more unclear how it will look, therefore I posted my impressions with the other threaded discussion system I knew by then, namely LiquidThreads, to voice my concerns with threaded discussion in general. I'm sure if you think of it you will realize that most of my points are also valid for FLOW.