Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-26339491-20191023222901

We are not asking wikis to switch to DPL forums. We are pointing out that, for the very specific situations where Discussions doesn't work as a replacement, DPL forums are available as an alternative option. The vast majority of conversations users are having on Special:Forum at the moment can be had in Discussions.

After adding article tagging (a feature that the Forums have as well), @ mentions (a feature that the Forums do not have) and text formatting this year, we do consider Discussions ready enough to replace Forums.

That doesn't mean it's a perfect feature. It's not, and we know it. We are not done making improvements to it. The crucial point is that Discussions serves the needs of a very large group of users (casual and mobile users) rather well, and it can be improved further. Forums serve the needs of a very small though extremely powerful group of users (you, the admins and powerusers who create our invaluable wiki content, and who predominantly use desktop computers) very well, but they can not be updated. So this is a move we have to make, in order to eventually arrive at a point where we have one feature that serves all user groups.