User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-18172179-20160908185808/@comment-3218221-20160909213108

One of the wikis I work on also uses the old...old forum system - the wiki (founded back in 2009, I believe) simply never updated when the current/new forum system was introduced.

That being said, the forum itself has not been updated since 2009, nor has it seen any activity whatsoever since its creation.

I paid the forum little mind when I first became admin/bureaucrat back in January due to how, ah, dusty it was - and frankly, the wiki isn't vey user-active, but this Discussions announcement has got me thinking.

I'm not sure if I want to bank on Discussions as a means of instigating community activity and user involvement - and I'm a little dubious about the claim that it positively affects edit counts. At the same time...

...well, perhaps I should think about tackling the forums as they are at present. Funnily enough, just the other day I was thinking about updating the forums to the current system since I am sure the current format looks outdated to the average user, but with this announcement...I don't know. Revamping might be the thing.

Maybe I should enable live chat for the first time in the wiki's history. I am always for promoting user involvement (given how little there actually is), but I have yet to be convinced that Discussions is the way to go about it.

Although - will they be scrapping the old old forum system completely? I wonder.