The talk page discussion archiving notifications that were recently introduced don't strike me as particularly helpful, and I'm not sure I'd suggest including them on by default. Most of the time, it seems the subscription transfers to the archive page, so telling me I might no longer get notifications for it seems misleading. On usefulness, most of the time, it seems that discussions have naturally concluded by the time they're archived, so it's just a nuisance. And in the times when things are more dicey, I worry that the notification could spur participants in a dispute to take up again an issue they had previously dropped, leading to WP:STICK violations. Lastly, when I clicked "stop getting notifications like this", it didn't give me any confirmation feedback, so I wasn't sure it actually worked, or how to turn it back on again if I wanted to (although I managed to find it in the settings when I searched).
Topic on Talk:Talk pages project/Flow
I am glad with this notification which I happened to receive the first time today.
I do need such information:
- Nobody did complain any longer about this issue, I can procede now.
- This case has been closed, I can forget about it.
- I need to re-open and unarchive this section since it has been gone without solution.
I do not need to worry about issues which seem to be open, I can terminate the neurons in my brain.
- In other tools like Flow (SD) or Phabricator I also get a note when an issue has been resolved, answered, declined etc.
I am wondering whether this is something that we want now, while people learn the limitations of the system, but maybe not forever.