User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-452-20160908164144/@comment-1251315-20160908164405

I regularly use wikitext and template transclusion in forum posts. I don't know why this feature cannot be included by default for desktop-users (mobile users should make use of markdown, which converts to wikitext for them, necessitating any need for mobile users to learn wikitext.