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

Hi everyone!

As some of you may already know, the Wikia Community Development has asked if we are interested in launching a new feature on our wiki, called Discussions. Discussions is a conversation feature similar to our Forums, but with some notable differences. You can read more about Discussions here and here. If we wish, we can migrate our forums into Discussions so it's all in one place.

Now, personally, I don't think we should go for this and here is why:
 * 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 users and editors, also in our forums, and I think it would be a bad move to lose that.

So personally, I would prefer to wait until there is further feature development, such as a replacement for Forums' highlight function and a more versatile editor for Discussions, which supports Wikitext. What does the rest of you think? Discuss away… 