Topic on Extension talk:RevisionSlider

While I don't want to sound overly negative, I do a lot of editing and I have yet to find a need for this revision slider. This would normally not cause me any great discomfort, as there are many tools that I don't use for one reason or another, but in this case this tool is creating a problem for me. I use the Twinkle commands that appear on the first line of the two revisions that are being compared extensively. Frequently, but not always, the slider display overwrites this line (usually after I have moved to another version) and once it does this I can't recover those commands (collapsing the display does not help) without leaving the page and returning again. This is so annoying that I would like to disable this slider, but it does not appear that I can do that (or at least I can not find anything in my preferences that would do that). The slowness of the initial display and the fact that the cursor frequently opens a bubble by accident that takes forever to disappear are also definite drawbacks. --~~~~

As an addendum, a little more experimenting has given consistent results. The overwriting occurs after I use the previous edit or next edit arrows, even if the slider has been collapsed before I do so. --~~~~

Hey @Wcherowi,

thanks for your feedback! The good news is, in fact you can deactivate the RevisionSlider completely in the user preferences Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering. Just scroll down to the section "Diffs" and check the box "Don't show the RevisionSlider" :-)!

Nevertheless I created a ticket for the issue so we might be able to fix that for maintainers that want to use the gadget and RevisionSlider: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180430

Thanks again and best,

Christoph