User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: August 17, 2016/@comment-1757994-20160817230845/@comment-5558012-20160818135646

The last time I seen the discussion feature (it's been a while) I wan't impressed with it. Maybe when it has a wider release I can look again, but I'm not for automatically converting the old forums into this new feature either way. That's a discussion for individual communities.