Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-26339491-20191018154637

Discussions is built entirely outside of MediaWiki, on different technology. So adding wikitext support would be really time-consuming. And we'd risk echoing the issues the current Forums have by once again forcing code into an existing infrastructure that wasn't set up to work with that code.

Unlike the Forums, Discussions can be updated, so it's likely we'll keep making more improvements to it, even though we can't do it immediately, given all the other work that is underway for the UCP.