User blog comment:Jenburton/The Values of Fandom: Community/@comment-954127-20161129104536/@comment-168424-20161201002039


 * Forum is not a great feature on the backend, and the only workable solution was to make something new. The fact that we own Huddler gave us the opportunity to use existing technology to build the new Discussions feature.

The problem is that Discussions is not a great feature when integrating into a wiki and feels very unwiki-like. It lacks the flexibility of the wiki and the thing that makes wikis great: linking. Also, from an admin standpoint, Discussions is difficult to manage and patrol.