User blog comment:HiccstridFan92/Talk pages vs Message Walls/@comment-31135394-20190130070910

I'm use to the Talk Pages, so I'm happy with them. I'm also with Nutte in that it's nice to be able to personalize them a bit. It would also be a shame to no longer need signatures. Some of us put a lot of work into customizing them. Not to mention the help page I created a while back in how to create a custom Sig will be null and void. Plus I've always found it cute how the notification we get says we have "Terror Mail". It keeps us unique from other wikis and more HTTYD themed.

This is really the only wiki I'm active on, but I've ventured to others that use Message Walls. Yeah, they work like a forum. If you comment on a conversation you automatically begin following it, so any other comments left will prompt you to get a notification. There's also a "Follow" button so you can follow a conversation without having to comment yourself. From what I've seen there's no table of contents on Message Walls, so it seems like you're going to have to remember what a conversation was titled in order to find it. And after you get so many messages they automatically start being pushed into a second page. And then a third and so on. It does look like it will be difficult to look something up if you don't remember exactly when the conversation took place or what it was titled.

Message Walls have their benefits, especially with new users since it's common for them to respond to a message on their own talk page. But I personally would like to stick with Talk Pages.