User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-4193424-20170102212627/@comment-4193424-20170103220057

Thank you for listening!

Unfortunately, I did run accross the user made recent activity page before giving up on discussions.

I am trying to sell my users on this new forum format, as I know discussions are trying to be sold to the Wikia community at large. I know that my users will not constantly check a very technical looking, unintegrated feed like that to see a basic activity feature that is much more easily apparent on essentially every other popular forum platform. The user-made discussion feed also fails to make use of all the wonderful tools discussion has in place for keeping activity in user's view; the discussion feed widget, the discussion footer, and the discussion desktop & mobile hub itself. Activity will slow to a crawl/stop without users seeing each other's replies easily, which will make my wikia die as a forum.

It seems like every thread on discussions I have run across asks for the sort by recent feature. The user created version is a testament to it as much as anything. Regarless though, without a native supported recent activity that integrates better with the more polished wikia tools, I cannot use discussions within my community, even though I would absolutely love to.