Last modified: 2014-09-03 14:26:35 UTC
I am being told that it is now possible to watch individual topics on talk pages using Flow by clicking on the watch star, and having the request submitted through AJAX (tested that on a page on the Beta cluster). However, the AJAX method does not work on my ancient browser, and I am instead being directed to a confirmation page. It is possible for me to add whole pages to my watchlist using the AJAX method in MediaWiki core (simply by clicking on the watchlist star next to the 'View history' tab), so this looks like a Flow issue. It would be nice if Flow used the same method as MediaWiki core, so that adding individual topics to watchlist worked on all browsers without the need to go through confirmation pages. Thanks :-)
Hi Tomasz, What browser are you using?
Google Chrome 6.0.472.55, but I've been told this works fine on newer browsers. I can test on the newest Firefox & Chrome on another machine, if needed.
(In reply to Tomasz W. Kozlowski from comment #2) > Google Chrome 6.0.472.55, but I've been told this works fine on newer > browsers. > > I can test on the newest Firefox & Chrome on another machine, if needed. Please do. I only have the latest Firefox/Chromium/Opera available for testing locally. (Dare I ask why you're using Chrome 6?!) I believe this different-method (than core) is related to the auto-subscribe-if-I-reply feature. (Which works, but doesn't yet update the star automatically, without a page refresh. (WIP at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/147346/ ))
I just tested this on Google Chrome 37.0.2062.20 beta-m (the newest Beta version of Chrome), and adding topics to my Watchlist works correctly, at least on MediaWiki.org where I tested it. (I am aware that my browser is hopelessly outdated, but I am unable to update it due to a number of different reasons.) Still, it would be nice if Flow used the same AJAX method as core so that adding individual topics worked as well as it does for adding whole pages.
This appears to be done.
