User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Updates to Discussions and the plan for Forums/@comment-180.191.139.113-20200915120341/@comment-24258073-20200922070824

1.19 is outdated and a lot of new features are unsupported by earlier versions of MediaWiki. So we have to migrate to a newer version of MediaWiki.

Anyone that doesn't agree is either relying on nostalgia too much, or they haven't understood the disadvantages of not migrating to a newer version of MediaWiki.

I recently stumbled across a few sites that still use 1.5 or anything before 1.10 if I remember correctly. And it was unbelievable. So many special pages and features missing.

A decade from now and 1.19 will likely be so outdated that it will make countless users frown.