As many of you users, who have been around for a long while, know, we seem to have a major bi-annual argument on (ironically) the forum, talking about how the forum is the suxxorz and that spamming off-topic threads (and replying in them) is filling up the the RC page making the rest of us feel all emo D= We then say "Noooouuu, baaaad, forum is baaaad, no post off-topic D=" which makes the forum goers all emo and go "but we liek off-topic D=", followed by major D= and >:3 and >:D3= (<-- no idea of what it is) on both sides, and at the end of the week, nothing has actually changed except everyone is pissed. (end of summary)

So, here are the two major key issues:

1. Forum goers want their off-topic threads
2. Everyone else don't want to be bothered by the edits in those threads, i.e. they shouldn't show up on the RC

Our previous solution was quite simple; use the off-site forum. It was a complete bust. Why? Several reasons, but who cares? The bottom line is that it obviously ain't working, so what else are we gonna do?

Enter solution: edit the sidebar. As some might have noticed, I've made an edit to the sidebars changing the link to the recent changes. The effect of this is that, by default, any edit made in the forum namespace does not show up in the RC, so the wiki editors are happy (lubz to me <3). Also, if you remove the tick in "Exclude namespace", just above the actual RC list, and click the button "go", you'll see nothing BUT the forum edits, so all the forum goers are happy (lubz to me <3).

In conclusion, everyone are happy, we revive a space for off-topic threads, move the off-topic shiz from Rin's there, since the minor edits won't be spamming the RC any longer, and then we all have FFwiki-gasm and stop making life miserably for me since if people don't bug eachother, other people won't have to call me in to tell people how 'tarded they are (though admittedly, I do enjoy it sometimes).

So this way everyone's a winner.

Really? It seems absolutely brilliant to me. This way effectively organizes the changes in two neat pages; 1: All the edits on the actual wiki, and 2: All the edits in the forum namespace. This allows you to see exactly what you want to see (work vs play) without having all the other stuff mixed in. And all you have to do to change between them now is remove/add the tick, click the button, and voila, you're good to go, no extra hastle. If you can't even be bothered to such a simple thing, then you are way too pampered ^^

But not to worry, there are other ways, such as bookmarking this page and using that to visit the FFWiki or learning how to use the watchlist more efficiently, i.e. actually watching the topics you are following instead of depending entirely on the RC =D

IE has it too, but it's pretty sub-par. I should add a link to this in the sitenotice, btw... For all the people who are all "Where did da edits go?! D="

But the solution (which is the only one that works, by the way, save for using the off-site forum or... well, that's the only alternative at the moment) is pretty good, in my opinion. And for those of you forum goers who are against this, let me just remind you that it was either this or having every off-topic thread deleted ^^

(EDIT CONFLICT)
Adding informational image guide again, so people can see how to easily get nothing but the forum edits in the RC.

@Lionheart: Just wanted to point out the flawed logic in wanting to get rid of fora entirely, but calling the solution that removes them from the default RC "stupid". Do you even know what it is you want..?

Oh God, it really does! =O For some time, I thought it looked like a mean dude with one of those Victorian era ties or butterflies or what it is.

Riiiight, I'll file that under "completely irrelevant statements no one cares about D=". And note to self: make a better filing system, the names of the current categories are too long... and probably shouldn't include emoticons.