User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-43368626-20201109153143/@comment-24258073-20201110122616

I would use both for the same things. I trust you know why forums can't return. And there are actually a lot of negative things about forums - which you may or may not care about - such as when a user renames. It leaves a lot of redirects and it creates a big mess to cleanup.

When you're a person like me who likes to keep on top of maintenance, that can get really annoying. I like both threaded forums and Discussions, but I have long since accepted that the only way to move forward is for forums to go.