Thread:Matsczon/@comment-25503930-20170513143901/@comment-20644-20170519233517

Hey Matsczon. Thanks for the thorough reply. Julia has been out this week, so I'm replying to your message in her absence.

Our Product department has multiple teams within it. The team that works on Discussions is not the same team as the one working on Wiki Modernization. So both of those teams are continuing work on their projects. Discussions is still under active development and new features will continue being released. For example, the new page header will also be going onto Discussions in the near-future. That's a big step towards bringing a more consistent feel between the wiki and Discussions.

As for Discussions blocking, we actually do have the ability to add the blocking right to Discussions Moderators. You can request that at Special:Contact.

Let's talk about the size of the video player next! When we first began developing the Wiki Video feature, we tested five different placement options. Some were smaller than what we have now&mdash;some were next to the infobox, below the introduction section, and in the right rail&mdashlwhile some were even bigger than what we have now, taking up the ENTIRE width of the page. We tested how visitors engaged with each one and found that the current player is what people responded to the most. Given that it was the most successful one, that's what we determined would allow us to get the most value out of the advertisements to clean up ad clutter on all wiki pages.

We will, of course, continue looking at visitor interaction with the player and make any tweaks necessary.