Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-33031854-20190112000835/@comment-1038387-20190113183324

JoJoMKWUTeam wrote: GlowingNormality wrote: Yes. Yeah, back on topic. I do prefer Forums over Discussions. Forums just needs a search bar, and FANDOM could have easily added that. Just that? That's barely the only problem... The Forums feature was made with MediaWiki, which isn't really made for that, so it gave plenty of back end problems. The most prominent ones are the bad portability and links on SpecialPages/Contributions. Rather than hotwire MediaWiki even more, they decided to set up an entirely different system not using MediaWiki. That was probably easier and more future proof. Can't patch a leaky ship forever.

Success of Discussions varies per community, much like usage of forums, chat and other social aspects work differently for different wikis. We barely used Forums, but Discussions and the accompanying app involved the mobile readership into the wiki and gave us plenty of new blood.