User blog comment:Nathan Pirate/Why having everything on a Discussions-based format is a bad idea and Threads should stay/@comment-24006128-20200703122146/@comment-24258073-20200704140908

User talk pages aren't boring. They are quite good. Wikipedia uses talk pages. Plus, message wall threads and forum threads are quite messy. As they leave behind a lot of redirects when the users posting the threads decide to rename their accounts.

I remember spending a crap load of time cleaning up after the Fandom bot that automatically moved the threads, leaving behind redirects. Trust me, cleaning up message wall and forum thread redirects is more of an annoyance than you can imagine it to be.