Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20190329181123/@comment-26339491-20190401164740

Antvasima wrote:

Will you continue to copy the features of the forums to Discussions, and let's say that in a few years the forums turn extremely buggy due to a lack of updates, and Discussions has all the features of the forums at that point. Would it be possible to migrate our content then? As you likely know, we have the most active community in all of Fandom in terms of participation and constant discussions, so this would be very useful in a long-term perspective.

Discussions probably won't ever have every last feature the forums had. It's just not sensible to re-build an existing, old and problematic feature with new technology and just copy everything the old feature had one to one. Instead, we're working towards a feature that meets the needs of the users we have today, not the users we had five years ago.

I'm fairly certain that the VS Battles community will be in the very last batch of forums to be migrated, when we finally get to that point - and that still won't be soon. All your forum content at that point will be copied over exactly as it is, embedded templates included, because we're just copying over the HTML. You won't be able to transclude more templates in fresh Discussions content, or edit the old posts without losing formatting. But hopefully, by that point, Discussions will be able to support your wiki's activities with its own set of features.

Re: Announcements - Today's update doesn't change anything about Announcements. We may fine-tune Announcements some more this year, but the Feeds/Discussions consolidation has no bearing on this.

@ Andrewds1021: We do indeed have a script that automatically copies forum content to Discussions and then closes the forums. That's what we have used for migrations so far. But as Discussions changes (and it changed a lot today), that script constantly needs to be updated, and some hand-holding by an engineer is required to make sure it runs correctly. Every community has a more or less unique-setup, so migrating a community isn't as simple as pressing a button. That's why we have stopped doing them for the time being.