Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-32696106-20191123175703/@comment-1038387-20191124114113

The God Of Procrastination wrote: which really makes me wonder why the forums are going

Because MediaWiki wasn't meant to create something like forums, it had a lot of issues under the hood and it had limited portability. Fixing it would cost more resources than it was worth, so it was no longer viable. Yeah, it's annoying that wikitext is not supported, but it has tags and limited WordPress-style markup, which can get a lot done. The main hiccup is wiki technical questions; if we're ever getting some sort of wikitext compatability, I would expect it to be probably in a box or something, like or tags.

Probably 9/10 discussions can be perfectly fine without any wikitext.