Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-36647361-20180824004126/@comment-168424-20180824043222

If a wiki admin requests Discussions be added, FANDOM staff assumes it will replace Forum, so Forum will get disabled and archived. In theory, if the admin asks for Forum to remain enabled, Discussions will just get added and Forum will still be around.

MichaelBMOC wrote:

Forums were always there. However, some wikis DON'T have discussions because Wikia was planning to remove them.

Yeah this is wrong. Forums (aka thread-based forums) only exist if an admin requested they be enabled on a wiki before Discussions existed. Wikia is planning to remove thread-based forums, not Discussions. Not all wikis have even wiki-style forums.