User blog comment:Mira Laime/Introducing long-awaited Discussions updates/@comment-26279466-20190330043925

Great news about the better integration and the @mentions/formatting(wiki-text?) in the future of discussions.

I think what most people (or maybe just me) want is a modern forums rebuilt from the ground up without all the issues of hidden metadata that can get horribly messed up, multiple page names for threads and individual replies depending on the context in the back-end, topics that cannot be virtual (must instead be linked to an existing article), replies that cannot be moved to other threads, no built-in feature for users to report messages to staff, inability to restore mistakenly deleted reply pages, no built-in feature for stickied threads, no built-in feature to quickly see threads status (open/closed), etc.

Any progress on a timeline for killing off the remaining active Forum Boards?

edit - looks like the transition is on indefinite hold still per Thread:1640709