Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-26806340-20200105185328

That may be true of some websites, but Discussions is pretty limited in scope so the minimalist layout it has currently works perfectly well for causal browsing/posting. Arguably, it's much more user-friendly for newbies versus Forums, which has a more unusual structure. Of course, Discussions is inefficient for some use-cases like quickly clearing spam or viewing long threads, but the problem isn't that it's mobile-friendly or designed with wider gutters. Hell, even MediaWiki's new Timeless skin has Discussions-sized gutters, because they allow for easier scanning and reading like a book vs a long banner.

The problem isn't that Discussions was designed to be simple on mobile devices, it's that Discussions isn't fully-featured enough to accomodate powerusers/large-scale moderation. Digressing, a "long-term MediaWiki solution" is neither viable nor is it necessary to resolve those problems.