Two of us were trying to reply at the same time in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Recent_correction_to_Simple_Lists. I had to choose between the other editor's comment and mine. I opted for theirs, and had to copy mine from the right-hand column of the diff display, cancel my edit, go back in and find the right place in the thread again (hoping that no-one else was also replying), and paste it back in again. I don't know what would have happened if they;'d politely opted for my post instead of theirs: some kind of Mexican standoff? In the old system I could at least see what was going on. Not impressed with the new system, as yet. PamD (talk) 13:51, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
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Hello @PamD, thank you for your message, and apologies for taking so long to reply (vacation time).
Our team has looked into this and would need a bit more information to see what happened here. Are this and this the two edits that triggered the conflict?
From what got stored in these two edits, it looks like they should have triggered a special talk page interface that looks like this:
This interface was made specifically for talk pages and it allows you to save both edits, just like you wanted in this case.
The reason it didn't work here might be that the detection for this special case only works when no other edit was made to the page. Was your original edit possibly fixing e.g. a typo somewhere else on the page?
"I don't know what would have happened if they;'d politely opted for my post instead of theirs: some kind of Mexican standoff?"
While a Mexican standoff sounds interesting, that's not what would have happened. In an edit conflict, two people are editing the same page. If the other person saves the page before you do, you run into an edit conflict. To the other person, however, their work is done. They don't see any edit conflict interface.
Another question, when you say "old system", are you talking about this interface?
Greetings,
Johanna