User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Updates to Discussions and the plan for Forums/@comment-36145153-20200806194622/@comment-26923519-20200806195418

The Forums had to retire because of the custom modifications that they have built-in, and with the MediaWiki software that they are upgrading, it would be very difficult to update those features along with the MediaWiki software.

Now don't worry, at least this new update does give a new and optional condensed view in Discussions, which makes it look similar to the old Forums.