Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-9605025-20191017181316

reply to and  by Forge the Hybrid I am guessing the blogs themselves will not be affected but that blog comments are included in the term "comments". So basically whatever happens to article comments will happen to blog comments. I am just guessing though.

As for Structured Discussions, I doubt it will be added as it wouldn't be a good idea to have too many different discussion modes. However, the MediaWiki update certainly does open the door for many extensions to be added. Perhaps Forms (replacement for SMW Semantic Forms) could be added. That would bring back a nice customizability aspect. - reply to #46 by Scarecroe What is the other option? I was not aware of another new discussion feature. - reply to #48 by Golfpecks256 That is great in theory. Unfortunately, as has already been stated, there are practical limits that get in the way. - reply to #53 by KockaAdmiralac First, thanks for the info. Your replies were very informative.

I am sorry to hear that it burns your eyes. To be frank though, you really can't expect other users to go around checking everyone else's personal CSS/JS to make sure their choice of colors workd for everyone.

Thanks particularly for the info on HTML. If it is for security reasons, then I guess there isn't much that can be done. That being said, it sounds like the whiltelist for Discussions is a subset of that for MediaWiki. Do you know why some tags are not secure in Discussions even though they are on the wiki? If they are secure but just not whitelisted, then I think they should be whitelisted. I think it would help if the Discussions whitelist was as close to the MediaWiki whitelist as safely possible.

So essentially what this means is that the posts are technically editable but from a practical standpoint, they might as well be archived. All the more reason for an actual archival state rather than this archived-but-not-really situation.

Regarding images, I assume that even though they are on the same host, they are in different directories, yes? Otherwise, I don't see why it would make sense to have two otherwise separate systems store images in the same place. If I am understanding correctly, to use an image both in Discussions and on the wiki, you have to upload it twice; once with each method? That seems like creating the potential for a lot of duplicate files.

I see. I hadn't considered the possability of doctoring the XML. Even though I did try that a while back when attempting to import one of my test pages here on CC to the wiki I admin (didn't work due to namespace restrictions though). - reply to #56 by JustLeafy Based on what I know, that is about the only option available. There are going to be only two discussion features: Discussions and DPL Forum. One supports wikitext and the other doesn't. That doesn't leave any choice in the matter.