Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-91424-20170906111116/@comment-1916997-20170907010526

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. The more you use this feature, the more you can offer feedback about it to FANDOM via Special:Contact/feedback, which would likely incline them to add more functionality to it that us editors want it to have (wikitext, et cetera).

As Nightlily said, a highlight function & a rich text-editor are in the works, & the newly launched Global Discussions Moderator group (of which I am a member) are here to help in any way should local communities require assistance with getting used to Discussions. The decision is totally up to you guys, & I personally agree with many of the concerns you bring up, but there is no harm to be had from enabling it beside Forum, & it would allow you all time to get used to it. OUAT: The Darkness wrote: Can somebody help me understand why Discussions was created. It seems exactly like Forums, just without as many features. Basically, I'm wondering what does Discussions do that Forums doesn't do? Discussions was created due to the mind-boggling amount of bugs Forum has on the back-end (some code-savvy administrators here can probably attest to what I am saying), because Forum is not mobile-friendly, & because Forum will never be search-compatible; none of these things could be fixed without completely rebuilding from the ground-up. Hence Discussions, which is built to be compatible with all platforms (desktop, Mercury [aka mobile], Community Apps, et cetera) & has also been built entirely outside of MediaWiki (which is why there is no Wikitext at present). That’s all everybody, just stopping by to clear the air :P Thanks for explaining it a bit more. I do agree that we should report to Wikia what things about Discussions we dislike sooner rather than later, although it seems that the admins (and other members) already have a list of things, so I'm not sure we really have to test it out to find those things.