Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-168424-20191017210422

So, I know for a fact that when the first push came to get wikis to migrate to Discussions, they were conveniently not told that they could keep thread-style Forum around, if they asked, so many wikis basically let FANDOM staff disable or migrate Forum early. Once that was done there was no going back.

Also, I'll make some additional points:
 * It keeps being mentioned that thread-style Forums are a mess on the back end and cause various problems for FANDOM behind the scenes. I don't dispute this, but who is responsible for this mess? FANDOM can only point back to itself. A proper dev organization either wouldn't have let this happen and get so bad or would have re-factored or rewrote that bad parts at least in stages over time to avoid the disaster that became inevitable.
 * The killing of thread-style Forum is purely a business decision and reflects the lack of technical expertise in FANDOM dev and the poor planning of the past. If FANDOM staff did a better job of offering alternatives to soften the blow, I would have more sympathy, but it seems their basic stance is: tough sh!t.
 * FANDOM staff underappreciates, underestimates, and takes for granted the amount of volunteer help they get from the community and long time admins. Personally, I'm finally tired of it after over 10 years. I came back to Wikia/FANDOM after the Oasis Wars, but I guess one can only take getting punched in the face so many times.