User blog comment:BertH/New Forums now available in Labs/@comment-2026043-20121204053152

The new forum is great minus one thing: The footer at each article prompting users to go to the forum and the Topic functionality which goes further and actually embeds entire threads under the related article.

Speaking on behalf of our wiki, we like to have a clean look to our articles.

Speaking in general, embedding forum threads under the articles kind of defeats the purpose of the Talk Pages, doesn't it?

So, would you consider making the "embed under the article" part of the Topic functionality optional?

You can make it so that users can still add a Topic but not embed whole threads under the related articles, surely. (To further clarify, whether the threads will be appearing at the bottom of the articles should be controlable by admins only, and not by each user who starts a new thread with a Topic, or else, whlie that'd be "optional" it would defy the purpose)

As a side note, I was ready to hide the ability to add a topic, but I just read the last bullet from the update above. I take your word that you will address this issue in your next big update release in January, and I'll leave it as is until then. If you do not do something about it however you will force our wiki to either revert back to the old clumsy-but-cleaner forum, or hide that part of the new forum functionality through CSS.

Regards