Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-31377726-20170223161350/@comment-168424-20170304041044

KockaAdmiralac wrote: Fandom implemented Discussions because Yes, it is true Discussions feel completely separate from the actual site but I believe the engineers are working on changing that. Discussions got a lot of bad feedback from the users, too. I have no idea if Community Council members approved the idea of Discussions and if one of them tols you they would be breaking their non-disclosure agreement, which is a very bad thing to do.
 * 1) It's very hard to make a proper forum running on MediaWiki - their implementation is one of the worst hacks into vanilla MediaWiki and still contains tons of bugs they won't need to fix when they switch to Discussions.
 * 2) Making Forum portable would be hard, and if they wanted to add Discussions into an app it would be much easier to make a completely new RESTful API instead of the Nirvana or MediaWiki API.

This is still apologism for Wikia and doesn't justify removing Special:Forum as an option for new wikis until Discussions is closer to par with Special:Forum. If Discussions were a worthy replacement, we would be using it here on CC, but Wikia knows it isn't ready.