User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-27583260-20160908204233

It seems to me that the big issue here is not only a fear of change, but a disconnect with what this feature is all about, what it can do in the hands of creative mods and admins, and a complete misunderstanding that it's a feature in constant growth.

Yes, it has limitations. But we have found useful work-arounds to make our forums alive, useful, practical, and informative. One small example... we use our profiles/bios to save links to our favourite threads. That's just one example.

Another thing, custom categories are in the works. We won't be limited to just the 'latest' and 'trending' categories. How do I know this? Because I accidentally saw it briefly as it was being tested live.

For those of you who actually frequent the discussion forums, you all know we experience slow downs and log in issues. Back end upgrades are happening when you experience this. And this has been happening a lot lately. Things will get better as more and more features are implemented.

What I would love to see is the development team be more active with all of us. If people knew about the design roadmap, tension and anxiety would not be as high as we are seeing in this discussion right now.