Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-9605025-20191025200459

All of this was mentioned earlier in this thread but since it seeems some people aren't reading the earlier posts and some misinformation has reared its head again, I am going to repoeat it.


 * 1) All thread-based discussion features (Special:Forum, article comments, blog comments, and message walls) are unique to Wikia, are not maintainable, and will be removed moving forward.
 * 2) Each feature will be removed once Wikia has developed what it feels is a viable alternative.
 * 3) The "viable" alternative for Special:Forum is Discussions. They are still in the design/planning phase for the other replacements.
 * 4) Migration from a given thread-based feature to its replacement will be automated. If you are happy with the replacement, you don't need to lift a finger.
 * 5) Migration to any other feature (ex. DPL Forum) is the responsability of the wiki; Wikia does not plan on providing support or an automated script.
 * 6) Specific to the conversion of Special:Forum
 * 7) *All messages will have a final HTML rendering made and that HTML will be what gets posted in Discussions.
 * 8) *Because of the limimted HTML whitelist for Discussions (even stricter than that for MediaWiki), content that uses wikitext will, effectvely, not be editable. The reason is that resaving the message will pass it though the content filter (which is bypassed during the migration process). The filter is likely to remove tags that are critical to the appearance of the post.
 * 9) *New posts made in Discussions will not be able to use wikitext. This includes the familiar link syntax, images uploaded to the main portion of the wiki, templates, parserfunctions, MeidaWiki table syntaxt, etc.