Ladies and Gentlemen, I have an update:
https://phabricator.miraheze.org/T8618#175019
CommentStreams would not be a very good replacement for Flow, and for various technical reasons the above link elaborates, it would be messy to decouple it from ATT as our default talk page extension and preserve history without dumping raw Json code in the main namespace, which would be really hard to clean up. As it is, the main server move has fixed all the performance issues we were having related to speed and timeouts, so unless a better successor to Flow comes along, we are stuck with it. Thankfully, it still receives critical bug fixes, so it's not likely to go unmaintained anytime soon.
With all that said, I have asked that part of our changes be placed on indefinite hold. I still said we would like to take advantage of ElasticSearch when that is available, that is still highly desirable.
https://phabricator.miraheze.org/T8618#175019
CommentStreams would not be a very good replacement for Flow, and for various technical reasons the above link elaborates, it would be messy to decouple it from ATT as our default talk page extension and preserve history without dumping raw Json code in the main namespace, which would be really hard to clean up. As it is, the main server move has fixed all the performance issues we were having related to speed and timeouts, so unless a better successor to Flow comes along, we are stuck with it. Thankfully, it still receives critical bug fixes, so it's not likely to go unmaintained anytime soon.
With all that said, I have asked that part of our changes be placed on indefinite hold. I still said we would like to take advantage of ElasticSearch when that is available, that is still highly desirable.