Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-1038387-20191029221339

Fandyllic wrote: Tupka217 wrote:

OKool1470 wrote:

There are many of the forums with WikiText. I wish you could've added WikiText when Discussions were even in development.

That wish shows you don't understand the reality of the development.

Not really, FANDOM dev made the conscious choice to not support Wikitext, but probably because it was beyond their capability and no other reason. Wikitext is only a thing in MediaWiki (and other wiki software). They built Forums on MediaWiki, but it was such a mess that it is no longer efficient to maintain. So they built Discussion from scratch, not using MediaWiki for a feature it was not designed for. The main purposes are portability and participation, and they've got those. It was not "beyond their capability", it's "in a wholly different plane of existence". Botching together two coding systems is not a sustainable solution.