Should we get rid of Liquid Threads?
Duplicate of Thread:Support/Switch to Flow or to regular wikitext discussions
I don't know why translatewiki.net has been using the Liquid Threads system in the first place. I assume it was intended to experience and test this "new" system.
However, nowadays this discussion system is barely maintained, because the new "Flow" system took its place.
Due to the lack of maintenance, we're now experiencing a very critical bug. It is very difficult to create new threads, and AFAIK it is not possible at all to reply in an existing thread.
In addition, the Liquid Threads system does not support RTL languages such as Hebrew and Arabic: I.e., every time somebody wants to write in an RTL language, they need to manually add <div class="mw-content-rtl"> at the beginning of the message; otherwise it's aligned to left, making it very difficult to read.
Apart from the issues written above, there are many more annoying problems with this old discussion system. For example, the "You have a new message" notice keeps appearing even after reading the message. You have to manually mark it as read on Special:NewMessages to get rid of the notice.
Therefore, I think we need to get rid of the obsolete "Liquid Threads" system, and replace it with the new "Flow" system (or use regular talk pages).
Please let me know what you think.