https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35785
--- Comment #70 from TMg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #67) > some features you mention of the default RC are actually bugs If a behavior is used as a feature it is a feature no matter how you call it. When I want to hide pages I edited last from my watchlist I check "hide my edits" and use this as a feature. Simple as that. This very feature is completely missing in the so called "enhanced" watchlist. > The opposite is true. No, it's not. Ha, now I said it. What now? > By this reasoning we should never even try to make default settings saner. It's not "sane" to turn a "simple and easy to understand" mode off and make an "expert" mode the default. > I never saw them, what are you talking of? The information is the same. No, it's not. It's almost the same if you compare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?extended=0&enhanced=0 with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?extended=1&enhanced=1 There is no big difference. In my test these pages are each 150 KiB big (counting the HTML only). Both contain 700 links and about 740 tooltips in title attributes. If you compare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist?extended=0&enhanced=0 with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist?extended=1&enhanced=1 it's horrendous! The basic watchlist is 84 KiB big and contains 380 links and 416 tooltips. In comparison the very same watchlist, if enhanced, is 416 KiB big and contains 2077 links and 2117 tooltips. Two thousand (!) compared to four hundred! Thats 5 times bigger! 5 times more links! 5 times more information! The download is 5 times slower every single time a user wants to look at his watchlist. The browsers needs a lot more power and time to parse and render a page that is 5 times bigger. Scrolling is slower. And that's still not counting the slow JavaScript stuff. It's completely counterproductive to enable this horrendous monstrosity for each and every user without asking them. New users must start with simple settings and grow up from there. As I said I don't really care about recentchanges. It's the same for every user anyway. But I care very much about our watchlists. Watchlists are very personal. If you want to change recentchanges then you need to split the setting and change recentchanges only. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
