User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-876022-20160909073055

Just like with most of these community oriented features, I have to say I find them unattractive and redundant to what already exists outside of the wiki. Speaking for what has been decided through consensus over the years on the RuneScape Wiki, these features are no good.

We still utilize the original Forum Namespace as it was designed, not Special:Forum or even Blogs. Within WikiaLabs/WikiFeatures, we only use Polls and Chat (superseded by Discord now). I understand that based on BertH's comment and the Discussions FAQ that the RuneScape Wiki will remain as it currently behaves.

When people want to talk about gaming, they are probably going to be around their particular sub-Reddit than stick around on the Wiki of that same game or that said game's own boards.

The corresponding sub-Reddit for RuneScape works alright for the most part but it can be too toxic to approach some days. I would not want to have anyone deal with such issues. That's kind of why we have AbuseFilter for pretty much everything so that it doesn't happen in our own content.

This is sort of reminiscent of when there was a separate Answers wiki to every content wiki and how we asked to not have that included in our sidebar at the time. I believe that dates back to the Monaco and Quartz themes.