Board Thread:New Features/@comment-25404524-20171130232015/@comment-168424-20180113050759

TheKorraFanatic wrote:

One issue with Forums is how they tend to lag after getting a certain amount of replies and have a 500 comment limit. Discussions have no comment limit and do not lag after several hundred replies are posted.

I've never seen this problem on Forum, but I suppose it is a minor advantage. When a thread gets that big, it usually means the thread got out of control and is not being moderated.

TheKorraFanatic wrote:

Discussions, in my opinion, are also more organized than Forums and do not get cluttered as much. I disagree with this. Discussion categories can be much more confusing, because multiple categories can be on a post.

TheKorraFanatic wrote:

Another bonus is how Discussion posts are counted separately from wiki edits, so users do not get hundreds or thousands of edits from replying to Discussions.

This is a side effect of not being integrated into MediaWiki and is actually a pain for admins and patrollers who like to patrol edits all in one place. You can't patrol edits on Discussions.

TheKorraFanatic wrote:

Replies and posts also do not fill up Special:WikiActivity, which is also a bonus in my opinion, as you can then see actual edits being made using that feature.

No admin who has any experience cares about Special:WikiActivity. I almost never look at it.