Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-126761-20190715213037/@comment-26339491-20190716174700

We don't have immediate plans to migrate the remaining threaded forums to Discussions, although that is still the long-term plan. If you follow this space and the staff blog, you won't miss the announcement for that, when the time comes. We've migrated forum content to Discussions in the past, when a wiki switched over, so nothing was lost, and should be able to do the same again when we shut down the forums on the last remaining communities that still have them.

Polls remain a separate post type simply because that was easier to implement for our developers. It's technically possible to have them as a component in any regular post, but it would require additional time and effort, and we don't consider that a priority, at least not at the moment.