Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25150955-20160909010405/@comment-25739558-20161214214548

Fandyllic wrote: TheV1ct0ri0u5 wrote: Fandyllic wrote: TheV1ct0ri0u5 wrote: Coolmax260 wrote: Couldn't they at least add the option to turn off discussions? To be fair, Staff really should give some sort of option to opt out of Discussions.

The main reason Wikia is moving towards Discussions is that it is really a mobile-first feature and Forums wasn't. They don't want to try to make Forums work well with mobile, so they are instead trying to make Discussions work well with non-Mobile. The problem is that Discussions was missing key features that Forums had even though it worked okay for mobile. Wikia now wants to not implement those features into Discussions or delay implementation before it replaces Forums. Most likely they will try the tactic they usually use which is to hope people forget the features they took away or not make enough stink to give them enough bad PR so they actually have to think about it. Which I fully support, to be perfectly honest. I feel that there's a better way to go about it though, instead of just making the sudden switch. Perhaps similarly to how Staff are gradually trying to phase out WikiTable based Infoboxes in favor of mobile-friendly Portable Infoboxes on pages. I feel that it should either be opt-in beta of some sort for the time being, or simply using Discussions alongside Forums while they finish the development for all platforms.

But Wikia isn't really phasing in Discussions for new wikis. There have been reports that new wikis start with Discussions and cannot switch back to Forums. That's the part I don't support. I like the feature and concept; I don't like the application. I think that the product needs to be tested and finalized before being set as a default.