User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/An update on the Forum retirement plan/@comment-24510587-20191217203607

Unless you introduce wikitext to Discussions (which, based on interactions over the last few years, I know you won't), it's never going to be even a nearly adequate replacement for Forums. Wikitext was what made Forum such a good platform in the first place - Discussions' lack of it makes it horribly limiting.

Not that this is news, of course. People have been telling you this for years.