User blog comment:Toughpigs/Wikia's new Forum demo/@comment-781424-20120727194532/@comment-10370-20120727231845

Yes, that's a very good analysis. Here are the current plans:


 * Mobile support for Message Wall and Forum will be coming, hopefully early in the fall. We totally agree that it's a good format for people who want to contribute from phones and tablets.


 * Search support (for Forum and Message Wall threads) will also be coming as part of the Forum project. We're knocking out all the appearances of the @Thread/comment page names as we go along, replacing them in the way that you're suggesting.


 * We've got some thread-categorizing ideas that we'll be developing over the next month or so.


 * Chattiness: People have been saying for a while that the Message Wall and Forum system will lead to lots of short meaningless posts -- so far we haven't really seen examples of that on the wikis using those features. The blog and article comment format does encourage that because of the reverse-chronology; threaded conversations on the Message Wall & Forum tend to be just as intelligent (or just as silly) as they've always been on any given wiki. The features do have a fairly robust Remove / Delete system that's more efficient for spam and junk cleanup than going through history pages.


 * We're definitely thinking about the Answers wikis as we work on this feature. One of the possible uses for the Kudos feature will be to allow Answers threads to be sorted based on readers' ratings.

Thanks a lot for your thoughts and ideas!