Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31953669-20180422225244/@comment-9605025-20180423001218

To add some more....

Discussions is also mobile friendly while Forum is not. If I am not mistaken, it is even compatible with the mobile apps. To be honest, I think that is the main motivation since supposedly a lot of Wikia traffic is from mobile devices.

However, there is certainly plenty of room for improvement. There is definitely a long line of users who have complaints about Discussions; primarily a significant lack of features (ex. ability to highlight discussions, post wikitext/css/js, render content, and use ResourceLoader). I am guessing that is why they have yet to finalize the release schedule. For now, Discussions is mandatory for new wikis only. Older wikis can opt-in if they want (and apparently keep both for the time being).