User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first specifics on the Unified Community Platform/@comment-31208684-20191016182435/@comment-454133-20191016195258

I agree. I hate the Discuss feature. It's awful to work with, looks bad, and is hard for admins to track. Like TyLee said, it's too much like chat with none of the features that would make chat good.

In fact, it's like someone wanted to make a chat feature, was told partway to make it more like forums, and quit with both tasks only partially completed.