Board Thread:New Features/@comment-28340828-20170105212004/@comment-2200849-20170322001653

JustLeafy wrote: Honestly, in my opinion, if mobile users were having a problem with the forums, why couldn't Discussions be a communication feature for mobile users, while Forums should be a communication feature for PC users.

On the one hand, I could tell another example why Discussions should be only for mobile users is because judging by the layout, it is overall clean and a bit like the mobile skin of this site. On the other hand, a lot of people prefer the wiki-style forums over Discussions. Also, the forums themselves fit for the PC skin and PC users experience little to no bugs in the forums.

So, to summarize, Discussions should've been implemented for mobile users, while the wiki-style forums should've been for PC users.

Maintaining two solutions for the same purpose is not sustainable in the long run. Discussions is not just a reskinned Forum, it's completely different under the hood from it. Forum (and Wall) has severe architectural defects which impede performance and maintainability, causing long-term issues which could only be fixed by rewriting the entire component from scratch - and at that point it is better to rewrite it outside MediaWiki which was never designed to host threaded forum content.