Thread:Angelo Gabrini/@comment-28083312-20200620055548/@comment-28083312-20201001183209

Wouldn't it be obvious that anons would use comments instead of discussions since they can access it? What seems obvious isn't always borne out to be true in data. You can't compare this wiki to a wiki that doesn't have comments and say "it doesn't disprove anything" when anons would be forced to make accounts in the latter. Reddit, amino, twitter, discord, etc exist as alternatives that people use more instead of making a fandom account I was speaking about Fandom's general metrics across the network when I said "across the network", not any individual wiki, in response to your question about whether Fandom expects people to make accounts to comment in Discussions. I apologize if a comparison to this wiki came across, it was not intended. However, that people create accounts across the network for the express purpose of using Discussions is not in question. This is what we have generally found, across wikis with and without comments. While that doesn't mean that there aren't wikis out there that have no account creations for Discussions, the existence of such a wiki would not disprove that general statement about the network as a whole. Why does this only affect chrome? Is it actually clashing with the cookie block? I am not certain, but it will be investigated when Fandom can get around to it. Fandom should care more about fixing issues rather than getting more page views We are able to employ people to fix issues because we have enough page views & ad revenue. Why? This seems like another questionable design choice. Technical limitations. Wikitext in a social feature like Discussions requires it being built into MediaWiki, which is essentially what Forum is. Such deep integration is so hacky & entails so much tech debt that we essentially cannot upgrade MediaWiki & sustain such features simultaneously. If we want to keep improving the network, upgrading the software, and fix some major bugs/roadblocks, then we cannot have wikitext in Discussions. It'd be much better to be able to link to things than telling someone "hey look this up" or pasting an entire url You do not need to post an entire URL. If you highlight a piece of text, & use Discussions markup tools, you can hyperlink text to any full URL you wish. Hot and new show the same threads in almost the same order so it's either terrible design or it's bugged. Is hot based on views and not comments? Recently commented threads don't move around at all, a thread where a user commented is still below one that no one commented since yesterday Hm, I'll report this, thanks for letting me know! To my knowledge it ought to go by comments. Yeah, I'm not going to follow every last post when I'm not interested in them Totally understand 👍🏻 It's my hope that Fandom can build something better for this, moderation tools really suck right now. Isn't reported for threads that users have issues with like with vandals? For all moderation. Spammers, people breaking the [/d/g Discussions Guidelines], anything that might need your attention as a moderator. The notification sticks around as long as I'm on the same wiki, it no longer shows up on others. I've had a similar issue with featured videos where the video would stick around even after I logged in You're absolutely certain that reloading doesn't make it go away? I often have many tabs open on one wiki, & open the notification in one tab, only to have to reload the other tabs to make the notification go away. Aren't these suggestions common sense choices that should've been included from the beginning? Shouldn't fandom have addressed these issues first before creating even more problems with UCP? IMO yes, absolutely, these should have been native features when Discussions came out years ago. I can only document these issues for Fandom to fix when they eventually get around to it, & complain loudly. But I'm not the CEO, & can't make it happen. Fandom has to prioritize many things at once in the middle of a pandemic while also dealing with the consequences of choices made by past managements that weren't that great. We're doing the best we can.