User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Introducing Unification, FANDOM's next big initiative/@comment-26978548-20181017181057/@comment-26978548-20181018004118

Agreed. some communities have to use discussions, because it replaced the old forums. Wookieepedia, at least, doesn't need it so discussions is basically a meme-filled pit separate from the wiki. This has led to issues that are best not talked about.

Honestly, I'd rather they bring back the message wall-style forums, but users' voices count little.