User blog comment:TheOneFootTallBrickWall/Why are Discussions good?/@comment-27345308-20170723102117

I like how Discussions is a more modern messaging feature whose code is built so much better than Forum's and doesn't encounter major bugs the Forum has. I hope Staff don't abandon it like they did with chat, forum, message walls, achievements, blogs, comments and other "wiki features". It also separates the "social" part of a wiki from the content part a bit more than it did earlier.

What I don't like about Discussions is that users will start treating wikis just like any other social network. I understand it's modern to make your messaging service look like Twitter, Reddit or similar social networks but it will make users treat it as such. Discussions also won't help the wikis grow if there's no linking between Discussions and wikis, and there is almost none currently (as far as I can see). It also sucks that Discussions have no formatting whatsoever. They could at least add Markdown support if they don't want to make a Discussions wikitext parser.

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plz.