Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-27345308-20200102224524

Banarama wrote: It's not really "desktop-unfriendly" anymore, unless you count something being too simple & easy to use as meaning it's unsuitable for PC. It's still less desktop-friendly than Forums and optimized for certain use cases while having only partial success in use cases in which Forum thrived. I've personally found the Discussions desktop interface much less optimized for my use cases than Forum. No, I will certainly not leave Fandom because of it and yes, I'll get used to it when I'm forced to, but that doesn't make it any more usable on desktop than Forum.
 * When Fandom was cross-wiki spammed by dating site spambots it was horribly hard to open every post on a recently spammed wiki to see if the latest replies contained spam or not, not only because Discussions barely lets you open posts in a new tab (that is, only if you right-click the date of the post and select "Open link in new tab" - CTRL +click does not work, let alone the misleading placement of the post link) but also because it throws you back to the top of the feed when you return from viewing the last post.
 * The same as above made my experience of reviewing recently posted threads on a wiki I moderate much worse.
 * When viewing long Discussions threads from beginning you are only served the first post and last 10 posts initially, meaning you have to spam the "View Older Replies" button to actually read the whole context. Yes, it makes sense to not load 500 posts at once, but it only makes sense to limit the amount of loaded posts to 10 if you are on mobile (and even then, it's a tiny amount of context).
 * When deleting multiple replies in a row it doesn't hide the deleted replies regardless of your "Hide Deleted" preference, making the whole process slower than it would've been in the Forum.

Banarama wrote: It's nothing worse than say, the new Twitter design. Discussions have been in development since 2015/2016 and the new Twitter "design" is just their mobile site served on desktop with about no adjustments at all. If we were rightfully comparing the two it would mean something, somewhere, went horribly wrong.