Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-9605025-20200112064736

You are correct in that most of your questions are already answered in previous posts. However, I agree it has gotten too long to sift through everything. As such, I will point you to which is one of a few posts that were periodically made to summarize what had been said prior to the provided summary. The summary there should cover most of what you asked.

There are some parts of your questions that may not quite be answered by the summary so I will proceed to address them. At this point, it appears that further development of Discussions has taken a back seat to the Unified Community Platform project (the reason Wikia plans to force Forum retirement). As such, I would not expect any significant change to happen anytime soon. Regardless, it has always been the case that admins can always edit Discussion posts. Some users would probably argue that having a limited window in which to edit a post is actually a good thing that Forum lacks. By having a limited window, you mitigate the potential for user's to place replies in a false context by completely changing their original comment. For instance, I could post "Puppies are so cute!" and others would probably post something like "I completely agree!". Now, how would it look if I went back months or years later and changed my post to something racist? All of a sudden, it looks like all those users who simply like puppies are racist.