Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-3076045-20131030000429/@comment-14027812-20131030004333

Flightmare wrote: New users might prefer the wall, as it is far more inviting, opening doors to people with questions.

But walls take up far more space, so they can make big pages tedious to scroll through. Furthermore, last time I checked they couldn't be archived, which only strengthens these problems. Once you go Wall, you can't go back. Technically you can go back, but it would cause in-revertible loss of messages. There is no real nesting for comments, which also makes it a bit harder to find out which message comments on another.

And last time I checked, current talk pages would be lost if we didn't copy them ourselves. This could be devastating.

I'm on the fence for now, although the cons heavily outweigh the pros from my point of view. From what i could gather, the Walls archive automaticaly. The last point is terrifying, though.