All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXIV

[GethN7]

Looking at the Community noticeboard on Meta, I see that it's possible to subscribe to individual sections on that page. Maybe this might make for a good replacement for Flow? I don't know how their pages work behind the scenes, except that they use a "Parsoid/RESTBase server" (which at the moment keeps timing out... so maybe that isn't such a good replacement for Flow.)

Parsoid/RESTbase refers to the VisualEditor, which uses the aforementioned to turn wiki-text into client-side HTML (which looks nicer to search engines and automates certain aspects of wiki linking and text parsing done by hand in source mode). Ordinary editing (stock MediaWiki and/or CommentStreams which we plan to enable once the dust settles) uses the stock text parser of the MediaWiki engine, which does not use Parsoid/RESTbase.

The issues being sorted out are the fact all posts made with the VisualEditor put text in their own tables which needs to be rebuilt and synced to the new database like everything else.

Ergo, our plan to depreciate Flow ASAP for CommentStreams is still our best option, and VisualEditor is optional for all users who choose to use it, it can be disabled by user preference.

Performance is rebounding drastically, pages loads that took forever are now much shorter. As the database updates some more, this should even out further. Will submit the changes to our discussion format to Phabricator when it's up again.