Board Thread:New Features/@comment-43778549-20201025062955/@comment-9605025-20201025064820

It is just a way to insert a shaded box where the text is formatted a bit different. It's primary intend is to provide formatting for code snippets similar to what the pre tags do here and on the wiki's pages. However, it can be used for whatever content (at least text content) you want.

It is highly unlikely that Feeds (i.e. Discussions, new article comments, new blog comments, and new message walls) will ever get the "old commenting system". Despite presenting the wiki and Feeds as one product to the user, they are actually more like separate platforms. Feeds has absolutely no idea what wikitext (the "code" you can use on pages and in the old commenting system) is. For several years now, we here at Community Central have repeatedly pressured staff to consider adding wikitext support to Feeds but every time the answer is "No".