User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: August 17, 2016/@comment-1757994-20160817230845/@comment-24473195-20160818200733

> @Dessamator: Did you actually see the comment from SlyCooperFan1? If not, have a read since it appears Wikia wants to get rid of forums (both threaded and wikistyle) in favour of /d.

I did see it, and I re-iterate, technically speaking  as in using Core mediawiki software, or even any software for that matter, they cannot disable forums because all "forums" use text (or wikitext) with just plain "pages".

They can at most make life a living hell for them by generally disabling signatures, disabling talk notifications, disabling dplforum, and disabling ":" indents.

>Why bury the conversations that affect the whole wiki in something that is not logged, nor can be highlighted, to the wiki community?

Mainly because a wiki is not only about content and wiki pages. It includes a social part regardless of whether wiki editors want to admit it or not. Many current editors started out reading pages and maybe discussing in forums.

I don't see it as much of a problem, there are plenty of ways to reduce the trash posted by those users including options such as preventing new users from posting in certain threads until they have more experience, and using Abusefilter (if it even works with these new forums). If all else fails, one can still use regular talk pages or the other tools that will remain as discussion areas, or ignore and disable the discussion feature (if that will be even possible).