User blog comment:Mira Laime/Moderators Without Borders — a New User Group is Coming/@comment-27938131-20170827195341/@comment-26339491-20170828210005

Discussions is really easy to use, so while it's true that it's very different from the Forums, I do think admins and mods who want to be active there will quickly figure out how it works.

However, we've found Discussions to be a whole lot more active than the Forums, because it's much more accessible via mobile. Users post in much greater volume in Discussions, and so it's not rare that a community that had moderately active Forums now finds itself with extremely high activity in Discussions - dozens of posts a day instead of maybe one every couple of days. That's suddenly a lot more work to moderate.

That's one main reason why we've created this group - to help handle the much bigger flow of posts and new users many communities are seeing.