Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-33031854-20190112000835/@comment-24055022-20190112003343

It's not as popular because users don't care to use it, give it a chance, and wait until they're forced to when they had plenty of time to try it out and figure out some way to work with it for their uses/needs.

Staff says older communities still very actively use forums and it's a huge part on how they run the wiki and don't want to drastically veer those users off so suddenly.

The best way for older wikis to avoid being forced from forums is to willingly ask to have Discussions enabled but still have Forums enabled. I did that with one of my wikis, and I still have both forums and Discussions, otherwise, I don't think I would have if I had not requested that. Although I wish I had done that with another wiki, but since I'm the only one editing on it, it really doesn't matter.