Thread:BertH/@comment-4324417-20160819161300/@comment-4324417-20160819203240

Yeah sure, basically I generally have a lot of notifications, and I feel like message wall notifications get jumbled in with my forum notifications often, whereas with talk pages you get the little icon that you have a message in the bottom right corner.

That, and I have a slight bias towards them seeing as talk pages are what I've used since my original days on Wikia.