User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Introducing New Moderator Opportunities For Community Administration/@comment-1738746-20160116043732/@comment-1370845-20160117144958

I must point out that a major reason for little development on these forums is likely the Discussions feature. This can currently be seen in beta on a few wiki apps (Wookieepedia for one, not sure about the others?) and is a forum feature that drops MediaWiki entirely. I'm not saying they'll phase out forums - it's very likely that they won't, as Discussions seems to be based solely around fan discussions while forums could be used for wiki announcements/policy discussions - but that if they have any staff members working on discussion aspects of Wikia, they're likely working on Discussions at the moment instead.