Since the upgrade of en.wikipedia to 1.20wmf2, changes to my user talk page no longer trigger the orange "You have new messages" box. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#You_have_new_messages_failure
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works for me for each of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AMarkAHershberger&diff=491613710&oldid=491245820 Is there any more information? let me know.
Thehelpfulonewiki wrote:
copied from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Thehelpfulone&oldid=491661928#Bugzilla_36662_follow-up
Hi, re this edit: no, I didn't get the orange banner "You have new messages (last change)." I have carried out some further tests:
To eliminate a recent upgrade to Firefox 12 as a possibility, I started up other browsers (IE 7 and Safari 5.1), and then logged in on those with the same result: no "You have new messages" banner.
To see if it's something to do with my PC in general, or with my IP address, I created account Redrose64a (talk · contribs) (per WP:SOCK#LEGIT) and then used each account to send a message to the other. Redrose64a immediately got the "You have new messages" banner; Redrose64 did not.
I suspect that it's something to do with user settings or rights, but I don't see anything in "My preferences" that might control the banner. I was wondering about CSS classes: the full HTML for the banner received by Redrose64a is:
<!-- newtalk -->
<div class="usermessage"><span id="mw-youhavenewmessages">You have
<a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Redrose64a&redirect=no" title="User talk:Redrose64a">new messages</a>
(<a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Redrose64a&diff=cur" title="User talk:Redrose64a">last change</a>).</span></div>
<!-- /newtalk -->
I've added some line breaks after certain spaces, so that it doesn't flow off the right margin. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:46, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Well, since the change to Echo, the orange bar hasn't appeared at all. But as I recall, the posts at VPT around the time that Echo was deployed basically said "it's been replaced and we're not bringing it back". So I suppose this is a non-issue.
Nod. The OBOD was retired, and replaced with the "talk page message indicator" in the personal toolbar (which can be toggled off at the bottom of Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo). There was a (gadget?script?) at Enwiki for a while that replicated the old OBOD, but I can't find that at the moment, and I hazily recall it was abandoned - possibly that was what was causing the confusing testing-results in May 2012.
I'll close this task as invalid, as the extension currently functions as expected, afaik.