User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-452-20161104233022/@comment-27345308-20161106070025

"On new wikis, Discussions is enabled by default instead of Forums, so apparently Wikia Staff regard it as "finished"."

- 452

"Doesn't it say that they plan on keeping the Discussions (which will be enabled by default on wikis), and DPL Forums which is the older forums, and removing the thread forums (which was until recently enabled by default on wikis)?"

- C.Syde65

You are talking about the same thing.