User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-24.244.32.143-20160915230334/@comment-26402117-20160915235847

The operation of two different forum products at the same time would make it harder to maintain the two different products from the backend and splits development between the two. It also will damage consistency between the mobile and desktop view, so its better to get Discussions to scratch and with the needed features.

Also, I've been in your shoes where I've seen hundreds of users use aggro against a product - and it discouraged me from joining Wikia for more than half a decade. Please bear in mind that a number users in the comments are suggesting ideas and providing specific questions or feedback on functionality, design etc.