User blog comment:Toughpigs/Wikia's new Forum demo/@comment-1280533-20120726164619

I don't see it mentioned anywhere what will happen to the old forum namespace. Will that be deactivated, like Article Talk pages, or hidden away like User Talk pages, or will it still run parallel to the new namespace? Also, will it be optional? (I assume it will be, since Article Comments and Message Wall both ended up being optional.)