Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-91424-20170906111116/@comment-2153169-20170906235804

Ursuul wrote: Hey everybody, I am not a big member of this community, but I saw this thread was highlighted & wanted to point out that you can enable both Discussions & Forum side-by-side, my home Wiki does just that. There would be no harm in turning it on, since the Forum would not be closed here any earlier, & it will eventually be enabled anyway. What's the point then? I mean to have both at the same time? Yes, we could try ir and use it a bit earlier... but then?

Most of our main activity is going through the Forums right now. Our community is used to it, and always use it. So, just adding Discussions for the sake of adding it... Well, first of all, it is not a good reason to me.

Plus, it would be an unnecessary duplicate. As I said, our users are using the forums right now, and are fine with it. So, to use the Discussions, we would have two options:
 * We make some duplicate threads on Forums AND Discussions to try them both. To me, we have zero purpose of doing that cos it is absolutely useless.
 * We close some parts of our Forums to move them on Discussions, and see how it goes. To me, it'd mean we're forcing our community into using and trying them. And I'm against it. If we have to force people into trying them, then it is not a good solution.

Again, our Forums work perfectly fine for now. We have zero problem with them (except users-related issues, but that's not because of the Forums themselves). Plus, our community is having its habits on it.

And, as of today, I see no reason for having both Forums and Discussions at the same time. Except for the sake of having them and trying them. Well, by the end, we will be forced to come to that, so now or later... It does not make a real big difference if we try them now or later. Especially as they don't have all the features we need them to have for our wiki ^^