Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20190329181123/@comment-1824272-20190330142056

Discussions' shortcomings come down to, as you said Mira, "lack of development". The biggest mistake you could make at this juncture is to attempt developing another brand-new place for different conversations.

The biggest reason I saw to avoid Discussions, as shouted by the crowd you're directly talking to, was because of the lack of proper formatting, templates, and such that Forum already gives us.

As Ursuul said, I am so happy that these updates are finally happening, but you will lose all of that goodwill and all of your efforts thus far if you even think about making a new feature on the side specifically for wiki-based discussions. In the quest to de-monolith MediaWiki, don't fall into the trap of spreading too thin.

Stick with Discussions as the conversation platform. Give us code block formatting. We really don't need template transclusion in Discussions, but allow us to easily link to any wiki article regardless of namespace, and allow us to use code block formatting with proper coloring.

Fandyllic wrote:

This makes it sound like Forum migrations weren't giving wiki admins the choice of keeping Forum along side Discussions. Not a surprise, but good that FANDOM staff can admit that's what they were doing, even if only by implication. Um... isn't that kind of obvious? The whole point was that Forum was being moved to Discussions, there wasn't any notion of keeping them both available post-migration. In fact, I believe we're better off this way, as Ursuul and I keep saying, there should only be one destination for discussions, and Discussions is getting the treatment it needs and isn't tacked on to MediaWiki like Forum is.

On that note, once text formatting is added to Discussions after this upcoming update, I was hoping to submit a request for migration. Is Fandom still honoring migration requests?