Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-168424-20191024012054

Mira Laime wrote:

After adding article tagging (a feature that the Forums have as well), @ mentions (a feature that the Forums do not have) and text formatting this year, we do consider Discussions ready enough to replace Forums.

This determination just shows the vast underestimation of wikitext support, not to mention portable infobox markup.

The biggest problem with Discussions is that it uses way more client-side Javascript to do its thing which makes it slow and finicky (drag selection is super flaky sometimes and styles can often get mixed up). Markup and preview is usually faster and more precise. If Discussions had a markup and preview mode, then I would say it was getting closer to a replacement for Forum. In the very least Discussions needs some table support.