Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-168424-20200117021732

Andrewds1021 wrote:

...the general impression I have received is that threaded discussions, even as a general concept, is exceptionally MediaWiki unfriendly. Let us assume that someone put in the effort to make threaded discussions in a manner optimal for the current MediaWiki version. What is it about threaded discussions that would cause the extension to be inherently more difficult to maintain than other extensions?

The Extension:DiscussionThreading extension pretty much exists as an example that runs counter to your impressions. It sound like you are starting from a faulty premise that may be influenced by misleading info based on how FANDOM's threaded Forum was coded.

However, it is true that Wikipedia devs never seem to care about implementing something like FANDOM's threaded Forum, but I think that relates more to their vicious unfriendliness to social media features in general.