User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first specifics on the Unified Community Platform/@comment-37274447-20191016153556/@comment-24006128-20191016153837

We fully appreciate that these features have passionate fans. Their current state is just not viable going forward. Special:Forum has been in a retirement process for a few years now.

Our aim is for the replacements to become as good as, if not better than, the current versions.