Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5076341-20141124191243/@comment-1038387-20141125202748

Kerry Stapleton wrote: The forum is too social: althogh it is fine on Community Central, there is too much social networking site- like stuff on wikia, and it is getting sort of ridiculus. I shall, when I can be bothered, write a longer post explaining it n detail.

There are wikis that rely heavily on the forums, and used off-site message boards like ProBoards before Wikia came up with the new format. A lot of wikis are social communities, where, other than creating a database on the topic, they also engage in vibrant discussions, games and other social aspects. As has been said before, if you don't like it, don't use it.

The old forums are essentially talk pages, and add little more (if anything) that a talk or project page. Like monobook, source mode and the galleries, it's a product of the early days of Mediawiki. Change happens.