User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Fandom is upgrading to a modern version of MediaWiki/@comment-1251315-20190622192207/@comment-1187559-20190623115809

But when will you make Discussions a per wiki option rather than a mandatory feature? Since being turned on on our wiki, we've been doing nothing but delete spam and frankly don't want it any more.

I've seen it work quite well on some wikis and think it can work. But every community is different. What may work on one site won't work on all of them.