Thread:Nightlily/@comment-24851773-20170828225101/@comment-91424-20170903214932

Hi, now that I've taken a closer look at this, I am not so sure if this is suitable for our wiki... There are some major issues with the proposed Discussions feature.

First of all, there is no highlight function. On this wiki, we highlight threads to bring attention to important discussions regarding policies and content, the kind of discussions where we want as many people as possible to share their opinion. If there is no option to highlight threads, we lose an important communication tool, since not everyone on this wiki checks the discussions. Another problem is that the new feature does not support wikitext, the main markup language used to format content and which allows us to add photos, tables, bold and italic styles, links, and other many other visual changes. It is an important tool for many of our editors, also in our forums, and I think it would be a bad move to lose that.

I will ask the users what they think, of course. But personally, I will probably vote no.