Thread:Rappy/@comment-5441128-20160831151008/@comment-27345308-20160831151450

Discussions are supposed to be a version of Forums that is portable to mobile, so once when it gets in a stable and usable state all threads from the current forum extension will be moved to Discussions threads. They'll basically have same functionality except that Discussions will be portable.

They decided to build Discussions due to MediaWiki's restrictions to make an actually portable forum, so now Discussions are completely separated from all of the other wiki content.

However, I'm not sure how would you turn Discussions on/off and will the switching of the threads from Forum to Discussions going to be done automatically to all wikis using Forum or upon request.