Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4787430-20131027000527/@comment-4787430-20131027005226

Sky Above,Voice Within wrote: I think that's my case, too. I also agree with your question (in regard to custom signatures), and i'd like to know how exactly will the old messages be morphed into the new system.

Old talk page messages will not be morphed into the new format, but if you wanted to preserve your old talk page messages all you would need to do is archive your talk page using the current format we use now. You can see an example on my talk page, I have a list of all my archived talk pages at the top of my main talk page.

Also, when making the switch to Message Wall, archiving messages will no longer be needed, since messages will just paginate after a certain amount of messages have been posted to your Message Wall.