User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-452-20161104233022/@comment-5558012-20161106150958

"If by "forum" you mean Special:Forum, yes, that was announced a while ago."

- KockaAdmiralac

Where did they say we were "forced" to use discussions before? Earlier we could clearly disable Special:Forum (meaning the new forum wouldn't be migrated to Discussions), now they create the impression you have absolutely zero choice (I received word that you can Special:Contact your request to disable). 452 has also created and is perfecting a script that would move all forum threads from the new forum to the wiki-style forum so choices exist. The change created the impression that Staff no longer was giving us new forum users any choice other than deleting every thread if we didn't want Discussions.