User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-454133-20200812195146

Will efforts be made very soon to make the Discuss feature tie into the wiki better? We absolutely hate using it, and it's alarming that it's now replacing article comments, the one functional discussion option left on the wiki.


 * Will article comments and forum posts appear on the Wiki Activity feed?  This is a core feature for us admins to notice questions being asked and respond to them!


 * Will linking to other pages work?  Template use?  Again, it's a core feature.  If I mention a pilot or upgrade card or other concept, I want to link directly to that page so the user doesn't have to search it themselves.

Article comments are functional, and they serve a major role on our wiki. People ask questions all the time below the article, and being able to notice and respond to those questions allows us to be helpful and responsive admins! Without showing in the Wiki Activity feed, there's just no reasonable way to track this stuff. We can't bound around the literally hundreds of pages on our wiki looking for new comments.

And being able to link to other pages and insert templates is very useful, especially when I'm describing a lot of cards in a fleet suggestion, or explaining rules and want to direct them to the fully detailed article.

I hated that we lost access to the Forums, which were functional, nice & easy to use, and actually integrated into the wiki. Discuss has proven to be none of these things. Please, please make Discuss an actual replacement for the article comments and forums. As Discuss behaves now it... it is its own little feature with no relevance to the rest of our wiki, no notifications when users ask questions, no proper article linking or templates, nothing. It's just a very clumsy-feeling "forum" that attempts to look nice at the expense of features and user experience.