We need to remember the caching implications of this, by the way.
Pulling the number of Flow topics associated with a page has to happen in
Javascript, on a secondary thread, because we can't regenerate the HTML for
every article page every time its talk page changes.
On May 23, 2014, at 1:43 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> wrote:
> I kind of like the idea, but this:
>
> On Fri, 23 May 2014 18:24:51 +0200, Martijn Hoekstra
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I would be very reluctant about any change that might cause a newcomer to
>> edit a talk page and suggest a change (that probably nobody will read, and
>> if they do probably won't respond to) than just edit the page.
>
> Such behaviors seem pretty likely to me (this would be caused by making talk
> pages more visible – or more visible than article editing, even – not just by
> adding the number by itself). It'd surely be interesting to actually test it
> :D
>
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