Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25150955-20160909010405/@comment-28656770-20161002000846

I'm not terribly concerned with the look of the Discussions for right now, but I am worried about how this is going to affect things for the Wikia I solely contribute to. I understand the need to rebrand, but we've only ever used the Forums feature for upkeep and discussions related to the improvement of the articles and site as a whole. There's a separate site entirely for all of our noncanonical material. I'm worried about how this is going to affect us, and also why this is seemingly replacing the Forums and Comments features, since it kinda looks like it wants to be both.

Personally, I've always preferred forums to Twitter and other forms of social media because of the consistency between layouts and also the allowance of longer posts. This just doesn't look like a good idea, despite my understanding as to why it's being introduced.

I'm signing this for now, but if they allow people to opt out of the new feature, I might retract, given how I can see benefit in having both.