User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-1370845-20160908181829

Just like to point out a few of the major benefits Discussions has over the wiki forums:
 * Any image or video added to a Discussions post is added only there. It doesn't need to be saved to the main wiki.
 * Similarly, Discussions doesn't add broken links among other things to maintenance backlogs.
 * It's easier for non-editors to find and use.

On our community, we make a great use of this already for general fan chat as well as bug reports on the main wiki. With some new features, I am sure it can overtake wiki forums eventually.

That said, would be really nice if it could use wiki text!