Need volunteers to test Reflect for LiquidThreads
If you're attending Wikimania and want to learn more about Reflect, Travis has proposed a talk there. Feel free to add your name to the proposal if you're interested.
Will this make Liquid threads more stable and support lower connection speeds? I've only got a domestic broadband setup and I have learned to stay away from complex discussions in liquid threads - I hate to think what liquid threads is like for people in third world internet cafes.
Hmmm. That's something that I hadn't considered. Wikimedia talk pages should be as accessable as possible for as many people as possible. LQT is probably easier for laypeople to use, but it has the accessability tradeoff of greater bandwidth usage.
On en.wikinews we use LQT for the comments pages on articles, and ease of use is the greater concern there, due to the fact that most comments page contributors are anonymous users. But on talk pages bandwidth might be more important, due to the critical nature of talk pages. After all, if someone in a third world country can't access a comments page, not much is lost. But if they can't access a talk page, their ability to contribute at a significant level is diminished.