User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: April 10, 2017/@comment-13301-20170410205932/@comment-1824272-20170412230906

Deadcoder, Forum has not been fully deprecated. It is intended to be replaced by Discussions when and ONLY when Discussions has the same feature set that Forum has. And all Forum content will be converted to Discussions. Nothing is being deprecated or lost for that feature; in essence, it's almost an upgrade.