User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-1853435-20160914175829

The problem I have with this is that your track record for new features is a joke. Every time you implement one, it's broken. You'll then make a half hearted attempt to fix it, maybe getting a few things working better, but it's ultimately left broken and abandoned as you move onto the next big thing. It's an endless cycle of poor programming.

Lets look back shall we?

Visual editor:. When used for page creation, adding templates, infoboxes or any other advanced editing it does more harm than good. It's completely useless for anything more than simple text edits and even then it often leaves behind formatting errors that need to be fixed by someone else using the source editor. You created it as a user friendly editing interface, but in reality it's more difficult to figure out than the source editor. The worst part is, you make it default for all new user so we have to take time out of our day to explain to each and every one of them what the problem is, how to use source editor and how to set it as their default.

Insights: With no way to make it exclude certain pages it's a completely useless tool. Not every page needs an infobox, page links or an image, and nobody is going to bother sorting through dozens or possibly hundreds of pages it may list to see if one or two of the ones there actually should have them. Not to mention the pages without images one is broken anyway. I've been reporting that bug for almost a year now, ours lists over 300 pages as having no image when they all do.

Community Page: Another broken useless tool. It can't get the rank or edit counts correct, mine has listed my ranking as -/5 with 297 edits for months now. It never updates or changes. And "Please proofread these pages"? What's that all about? It's nothing but five pages picked at random and slapped up there, but the impression new users get is that there is something wrong with them. Why would they be listed as needing proofreading otherwise?

So now you're telling us you're going to take away our forums, which have a longstanding track record of working properly and are a tried and true feature that many of us depend on daily, and replace them with this new feature that will likely never measure up to them and remain half broken like all your other efforts have. Is it any wonder people are angry over this?