User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Why Fandom Evolves: A Look Ahead in 2017/@comment-24510587-20170111181049/@comment-26402117-20170111205232

If Fandom didn't create and develop the products for their wiki platform, wiki users would ask why features have bugs and what will be done about them, so contributions would slip. Investors would wisely ask what innovation and what USP Wikia offers to them in assurance of their investment actually not falling through. The site would fail to best its competitors.

I've found the visual interface of Discussions to be more advanced than Twitter. The only thing the two share is actually the logo positioning and the 1-2-1 rail design. The Hero Images and rail section design are unique. The post styling is different (separate vs. together, text buttons vs icon only, top-right dropdown vs. bottom dropdown button). Discussions is also more compact. The general design of Discussions is more fitting to a forum than something like LiquidThreads in my opinion - more responsive and customizable.