Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-24006128-20200813184033/@comment-24006128-20200819003222

Gurte wrote: Excuse me, but I still cannot understand the reason why Discussions were not developed initially on MediaWiki platform.

We did that. It's called Forums. The modifications to MediaWiki code necessary to build the feature made updating the core software extremely difficult. Building Discussions as a separate product removes that barrier, allowing us to update at a far more rapid cadence.