Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37839302-20200204042004/@comment-9605025-20200204044114

It will replace talk pages in the sense that users will be directed to the comments section instead of talk pages. However, if they want, users can manually navigate to the talk pages and will still be able to edit them.

Yes, they are working on a replacement for comments. I wan't sure if you knew that or not so I thought I should mention it.