Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-26806340-20200105185328

That may be true of some websites, but Discussions is pretty limited in scope so the minimalist layout it has currently works perfectly well for causal browsing/posting. Arguably, it's much more user-friendly for newbies versus Forums, which has a more unusual structure. Of course, Discussions is inefficient for some use-cases like quickly clearing spam or viewing long threads, but the problem isn't that it's mobile-centered, and certainly not that it has "huge gutters" (which are actually about the same size as Oasis and most other websites). Hell, even MediaWiki's new Timeless skin has those same gutters, because they allow for easier scanning and reading like a book vs a long banner.

The problem isn't that Discussions was designed to be simple on mobile devices, it's that Discussions isn't fully-featured enough to accomodate powerusers/large-scale moderation. Digressing, a "long-term MediaWiki solution" is neither viable nor is it necessary to resolve those problems.