User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Why Fandom Evolves: A Look Ahead in 2017/@comment-3013425-20170111205741

How are the "discussions" better than the forum exactly? What members of any wikia community want is to talk about the content of that wiki specifically. The forums allow normal links to articles and to use uploaded pictures and videos in posts, just like the comments right here. The "discussions" would be terrible by taking people to another forum site and by disconnecting them from relevant site content (functioning links and such).

I get that forum pages as they are can apparently take time to load (when they start getting long and that's why forum pages are automatically closed at 500 posts, but replacing them with a vastly inferior alternative is by far the worst "solution". All forums on the internet have solved this issue by simply diving each thread into pages (basically setting up like a limit of 20 posts per page and there are numbered links at the top and bottom of the page that load the next/previous pages).

Explain to me exactly how forums are "bad" and "difficult" to maintain. I'm pretty sure at this point you guys could only come up with obvious made up excuses.