Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-168424-20200115010457

Andrewds1021 wrote:

What I believe Mira Laime is trying to say is that the benefits of ditching Forum for Discussions may not necessarily be to the feature itself. Instead, the benefit would be in allowing Wikia to upgrade MedaiWiki and thus improve other features. For instance, the latest version of MediaWiki has (supposedly) "good" mobile editing; a feature which is completely lacking on FANDOM right now.

While this rationale has some legitimacy, there is no evidence that a MediaWiki upgrade would break Forum and I would bet that there is actually a better chance that Discussions will have to be changed to accommodate a MediaWiki upgrade since it really doesn't integrate with MediaWiki at all.

Many of us long-time admins and editors have warned Wikia/FANDOM about the consequences of forking their engine for a long time now and basically they are just reaping what they've sown. Getting rid of Forum is more analogous to a corporate re-org where you lay off people in order to hide the skeletons in your closet.

To quote The Jam in Smithers-Jones:
 * I've some news to tell you
 * There's no longer a position for you-
 * Sorry Smithers-Jones