User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Updates to Discussions and the plan for Forums/@comment-26213507-20200809040411

I'm glad that we have (finally) been given a good reason for retiring the forums. I'm sure this was planned all along, but a few years back I know that the reasons given were very vague and whenever users asked for more specifics, we more or less received a vague response that was scarcely helpful; luckily, this is not the case now.

While I'm sad to see forums go on my home wiki, discussions have been gaining some merit, and at least the death of the forums is going to allow the MediaWiki to receive a much-needed update. It's unfortunate still that templates and such still cannot be used on the /d, although perhaps capability with such as well as some additional formatting might be on the horizon (and perhaps a dark mode). I will remain hopeful (unlike during 2016-2018 lol).

This is relatively minor but on a side note, is there a reason that reported posts are no longer marked with a yellow/light orange highlight but are now a scarlet-red? It's not the worst choice, but I am finding it a bit hard to distinguish unless I give it an extended glance; I don't hate the color red, but being two distinct colors made it easier to moderate in my opinion.

EDIT: Also, is there a reason that "Hide Deleted" is the default? This seems to be the case since the beginning and it keeps randomly activating on me, so moderation is a bit more difficult because of that; in addition, newer users who post things against the rules do not see that their post is deleted and instead ask "where it went," for they are initially unaware that deleted posts are hidden by default. It may be better to have the default not hide deleted posts, as otherwise these issue will continue (and feed-clogging spammers are not common enough imo to keep all posts deleted.